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Albany, Georgia
Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the ninth-largest city in Georgia.
The area where Albany is located was formerly inhabited by the Creek Indians. They called it Thronateeska after their word for "flint" because of the mineral flint that was found near the river. The Creeks used this flintstone to make tools and weapons such as arrowheads.
European-American settlement began with Nelson Tift, a businessman from Connecticut, who took land along the Flint River in October 1836 after Indian removal. The Creek were forced to relocate to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Tift named his new town Albany after the capital of New York; both were located at the navigable heads of rivers. Alexander Shotwell laid out the town in 1836. It was incorporated as a city by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 27, 1838.
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Arkansas
Arkansas (
i/ˈɑrkənsɔː/ AR-kən-saw) is a state located in the Southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states (N: Missouri; E: Tennessee, Mississippi; S: Louisiana; SW: Texas; W: Oklahoma), and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. Arkansas is the 29th most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state.
The name “Arkansas” derives from the same root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word “Arkansas” itself is a French pronunciation (“Arcansas”) of a Quapaw (a related “Kaw” tribe) word, akakaze, meaning “land of downriver people” or the Sioux word akakaze meaning “people of the south wind”. The pronunciation of Arkansas was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881, after a dispute between two U.S. Senators from Arkansas. One wanted to pronounce the name /ɑrˈkænzəs/ ar-KAN-zəs and the other wanted /ˈɑrkənsɔː/ AR-kən-saw.
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Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex. Arlington is the seventh-largest city in Texas and the 50th largest city in the United States.
Located approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Dallas, Arlington is home to the University of Texas at Arlington, a doctoral-granting institution, and a General Motors assembly plant. Additionally Arlington hosts the Texas Rangers' Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Cowboys Stadium, the International Bowling Campus (which houses the United States Bowling Congress, International Bowling Museum and the International Bowling Hall of Fame), the headquarters for American Mensa, and the theme parks Six Flags Over Texas (the original Six Flags) and Hurricane Harbor. The city borders Kennedale, Grand Prairie, Mansfield and Fort Worth, and surrounds the smaller communities of Dalworthington Gardens and Pantego. Arlington is the headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV.
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Athens, Georgia
Athens-Clarke County is a consolidated city–county in U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former City of Athens proper (the county seat) and Clarke County. The University of Georgia is located in this college town and is responsible for the initial growth of the city. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original city abandoned its charter in order to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to collectively as Athens-Clarke County. As of the 2010 census, the consolidated city-county (including all of Athens-Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) had a total population of 115,452; all of Clarke County had a population of 116,714. Athens-Clarke County is the fifth-largest city in Georgia and the principal city of the Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 192,541 as of the 2010 Census.
In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is located today. On January 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for the University of Georgia as the first state-supported university. Sixteen years later, in 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals in what was then Jackson County. On July 25, John Milledge, one of the trustees and later governor of Georgia, bought 633 acres (2.6 km²) from Daniel Easley and donated it to the university. Milledge named the surrounding area Athens after the city that was home to the academy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece.
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Atlanta
Atlanta (
/ətˈlæntə/, stressed /ætˈlæntə/, locally /ætˈlænə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a 2010 population of 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest in the U.S. It is a major component of a growing southeastern megalopolis known as the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.
Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad, and air), with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an "alpha(-) world city." With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta's economy ranks 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation. The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines. As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year.
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Auburn Arena
Auburn Arena is a 9,121-seat multi-purpose arena in Auburn, Alabama, on the campus of Auburn University. Built in 2010 to replace Beard–Eaves–Memorial Coliseum, $92.5 million facility is the home of the Auburn Tigers men's and women's basketball and women's gymnastics teams. It is located on the west side of the Auburn campus, near Wire Road between Thatch Avenue and Heisman Drive. Aside from the main court, the arena also contains two practice courts, a weight room, twelve suites, coaches offices, the Auburn Ticket Office, and the Lovelace Athletic Museum. Along the west side of the arena is a large monument to the Auburn Creed.
Auburn Arena opened for the 2010-2011 NCAA men's and women's basketball seasons. Auburn's men basketball team lost its inaugural game at the arena to UNC Asheville, 70-69, in overtime. Its first win in the new arena was a 68-66 win over Middle Tennessee. Auburn's women basketball team won its inaugural game, 79-61, over Mercer. Auburn Arena hosted games for the first two rounds of the 2011 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.
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Auburn University
Coordinates: 32°36′12″N 85°29′10″W / 32.603374°N 85.486078°W / 32.603374; -85.486078
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1872, the college became the state's first public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The curriculum at the university originally focused on arts and agriculture. This trend changed under the guidance of Dr. William Leroy Broun, who taught classics and sciences and believed both disciplines were important in the overall growth of the university and the individual. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899, largely because of Dr. Broun’s influence. The college continued expanding, and in 1960 its name was officially changed to Auburn University to acknowledge the varied academic programs and larger curriculum of a major university. It had been popularly known as "Auburn" for many years. Auburn is among the few American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.
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Auburn, Alabama
Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2010 population of 53,380. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 135,833, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to approximately 500,000 residents.
Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. Auburn has been marked in recent years by rapid growth, and is currently the fastest growing metropolitan area in Alabama and the nineteenth-fastest growing metro area in the United States since 1990.[needs citation] U.S. News has ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is “The Loveliest Village On The Plains,” taken from a line in the poem “The Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith: “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain...”
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Austin, Texas
Austin (/ˈɒstɨn/ or /ˈɔːstɨn/) is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 790,390 (2010 U.S. Census). The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan area, which had an estimated population 1,783,519 (2011 U.S. Census), making it the 34th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
In the 1830s, pioneers began to the settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River. After Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau B. Lamar visited the area during a buffalo-hunting expedition between 1837 and 1838, he proposed that the republic's capital then located in Houston, Texas, be relocated to the area situated on the north bank of the Colorado River near the present-day Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge. In 1839, the site was officially chosen as the republic's new capital (the republic's seventh and final location) and was incorporated under the name, Waterloo. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas" and the republic's first secretary of state.
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Baum Stadium
Baum Stadium at George Cole Field is the home venue of the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. The playing field itself is named George Cole Field, in honor of the former Arkansas athletic director. George Cole Field was also the name of the Razorbacks' old home stadium, in use from 1975 to March 1996. Baum Stadium replaced George Cole Field in April 1996. The stadium is located one-half mile from the main Arkansas campus, which lies across Razorback Road from the stadium.
Baum Stadium officially opened in 1996. It was designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport), an architecture firm that has also designed several major league stadiums. Its first game was a 9-2 Arkansas win over Auburn on April 13, 1996. The stadium was dedicated prior to a 9-3 Arkansas win over Alabama on May 3, 1996.
In 1998, Baum Stadium was named the country's number one college baseball facility by Baseball America. In 1999, Arkansas won the regular season Southeastern Conference title and had an average home attendance of 3,780 spectators, the sixth-highest total in Division I college baseball. That year, the stadium hosted an NCAA regional.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham ( /ˈbɜrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area had a population of about 1,128,047 according to the 2010 Census, which is approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, just after the American Civil War, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named for Birmingham, one of the major industrial cities of the United Kingdom. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
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Bud Walton Arena
Bud Walton Arena (also known as the Basketball Palace of Mid-America) is the home to the men's and women's basketball teams of the University of Arkansas, known as the Razorbacks. It is located on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas and has a seating capacity of 19,368, which is the fifth largest for an on-campus arena in the United States.
The arena is named after James "Bud" Walton, co-founder of Wal-Mart, who donated a large portion of the funds needed to build the arena. Walton purportedly gave 15 million, or around half of the construction cost. Construction of the arena took only 18 months, a short time considering the size of the undertaking.
When it was built, it was touted as a larger version of Barnhill Arena, the team's former home.
The arena has been the home to the Razorbacks since November of 1993; the men's team won the national championship in the arena's first season of operation. The previous arena in which both teams played, Barnhill Arena, was renovated into a volleyball-specific facility and now houses the Razorback women volleyball team. Bud Walton Arena has more seats in less space than in any other facility of the same type anywhere in the world.
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Carolina Stadium
Carolina Stadium is a stadium in Columbia, South Carolina on the banks of the Congaree River. The facility was built for a cost of $35.6 million and is used for college baseball as home to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team. In three seasons in the ballpark, the Gamecocks have a home record of 92-19 and have played the majority of games in front of Standing Room Only crowds.
The dimensions of the field are 325 feet (99 m) down the right and left-field lines and 390 feet (120 m) to dead center, matching those of Sarge Frye Field, the previous home stadium of the Gamecocks. The baseball training facilities at the stadium include four indoor batting tunnels, a 3,900-square-foot (360 m2) weight room, team clubhouse, coaches offices, and a sports medicine room. Among the numerous amenities for fans, there are five luxury suites and two club-level seating areas with lounges, a Gamecock store just inside the main entrance in the outfield plaza, along with a picnic terrace that accommodates around 120 people down the left-field line. The scoreboard towers 86 feet (26 m) over the left field wall and features a 28-by-16 foot video screen.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati (pronounced /sɪnsɨˈnæti/) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Settled in 1788, the city is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits was 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's third-largest city. According to the 2011 Census Bureau estimate, the Cincinnati metropolitan area had a population of 2,138,038, the 27th most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States, and the most populous in Ohio. Residents of Cincinnati are called Cincinnatians.
In the early 19th century, Cincinnati was the first American boomtown in the heart of the country to rival the larger coastal cities in size and wealth. As the first major inland city in the country, it is sometimes thought of as the first purely American city. It developed initially without as much recent European immigration or influence as took place in eastern cities. However, by the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads, Cincinnati's growth had slowed considerably and the city became surpassed in population and prominence by another inland city, Chicago.
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Cleveland
Cleveland ( /ˈkliːvlənd/) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedical. Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As of the 2010 Census, the city proper had a total population of 396,815 and was the 45th largest city in the United States, and the second largest city in Ohio. It is the center of Greater Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2011 ranked as the 28th largest in the United States with 2,068,283 people. Cleveland is part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2011 had a population of 2,871,084, and ranked as the country's 15th largest.
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Cliff Hagan Stadium
Cliff Hagan Stadium (officially named Shively Field at Cliff Hagan Stadium) is a baseball stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. It is the home field of the University of Kentucky Wildcats college baseball team. The stadium, which currently holds 3,000, opened in 1969 as part of the Bernie A. Shively Sports Center, which also includes the school's track and field facilities in an adjacent stadium. The stadium was renamed in 1993 in honor of Cliff Hagan, the Basketball Hall of Famer who had played at Kentucky during the 1950s under Adolph Rupp and returned to Kentucky as athletic director after his professional basketball playing days. It was extensively renovated in 2002.
As of 2006, the stadium's future is now uncertain. In the wake of the Wildcats' surprising success in the 2006 season, which saw them win a regular-season Southeastern Conference title for the first time in over 30 years, coach John Cohen was signed to a five-year contract extension. A clause in the contract commits the university to either renovating or replacing the stadium. If construction on a new or renovated stadium does not start in 2008 or sooner, Cohen is free to walk away from the contract without a financial penalty.[citation needed] However, Cohen left the program at the end of the 2008 season for his alma mater Mississippi State. His assistant Gary Henderson was then given the head coaching job.
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Cole Field House
Coordinates: 38°59′16.6″N 76°56′48.1″W / 38.987944°N 76.946694°W / 38.987944; -76.946694
The William P. Cole, Jr. Student Activities Building, more commonly known as Cole Field House, was the home of the University of Maryland basketball teams from 1955 until it was replaced by Comcast Center in 2002. Cole is situated in the heart of the campus, right next to Stamp Student Union and near McKeldin Library.
Cole Field House still holds the distinction of being the site of the most upsets of No. 1-ranked men's basketball teams. In 2002, Maryland defeated Duke, the seventh and final top-ranked foe to lose at the arena.
The building was originally constructed in 1955 as the Student Activities Building at a cost of $3.3 million. Although the building's original capacity was 12,000, additional seats were installed throughout the years to bring the final capacity to 14,596 (in 1993). The first basketball game was played on December 2, 1955, when Maryland beat Virginia 67–55.
When college basketball was achieving its most explosive growth - from the late 1950s to the late 1970s – there was one college gymnasium on the East Coast that sat as many as 12,000 fans.
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Florida
Florida (i/ˈflɒrɪdə/) is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S.
Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south. Its symbolic animals like the American alligator, Florida panther and the manatee, can be found in the Everglades, one of the most famous national parks in the world.
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Foley Field
Foley Field is a baseball stadium in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is the home field of the University of Georgia Bulldogs college baseball team. The stadium holds 3,291 people.
Foley Field was built in 1966. The stadium was renovated in 1990, the same year that the University of Georgia won the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Since that renovation, Georgia owns a 378-193-1 (.660) record there (through the 2006 season).
Foley Field hosted the SEC baseball tournament in 1987. That tournament was won by the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
More recently, Foley Field has hosted four NCAA regional tournaments in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. In all four years, the Bulldogs' baseball team advanced to the College World Series. Super Regionals were also hosted in 2001 featuring Florida State University, in 2006 against the University of South Carolina, and in 2008 with North Carolina State University as the guest. All three super regionals were won by Georgia, two games to one. The Bulldogs own a record of 20-7 in NCAA post season games held at Foley Field. They also set a 16-0 mark in elimination games with a 17-8 win on June 8, 2008 to earn a trip to Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium.
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Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is best known for its use as a basketball arena, serving as the home of the University of Louisville Cardinals men's team from 1956 to 2010, the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from 1970 until the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976, and the Louisville Cardinals women's team from its inception in 1975 to 2010. Although Freedom Hall's only regular tenant is the Kentucky Stickhorses of the North American Lacrosse League, it is still used regularly, hosting concerts, horse shows, conventions, and basketball games.
Freedom Hall was completed in 1956 in the newly opened Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Downtown Louisville. Designed for the nation's premier equestrian competition, the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show, the floor length and permanent seating were designed specifically for the almost 300-foot (91 m)-long show ring (in comparison, a regulation hockey rink is 200 feet (61 m) long, and a basketball court is only 94 feet). The North American International Livestock Exposition also is held there each November.
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Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County in the U.S. state of Florida, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The preliminary 2010 Census estimate for Gainesville is 124,354.
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nation's sixth largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the #1 place to live in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated. Gainesville was also ranked as one of the "best places to live and play" in 2007 by National Geographic Adventure. Conversely, Gainesville was ranked as the 5th meanest city in the USA by the National Coalition for the Homeless twice in a row, in 2004 for its criminalization of homelessness and in 2009 for its ordinance restricting soup kitchens to 130-meals a day.
12,000 years ago Paleo Indians lived in Florida, but fewer than 100 sites have been found and although it is not known for certain whether any permanent settlements from that period were in the present city limits of Gainesville, archeological evidence of human presence exists. Upon retreat of the ice age, coastal Florida became inundated and Florida’s land mass shrank while the southeastern United States became wetter than it had been, so the Paleoindians required fewer moves between water spots and more populous camps inhabited for longer periods of time emerged; among the spots where camps from this later period have been found is around Paynes Prairie very close to Gainesville.
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Hoover, Alabama
Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA (metropolitan statistical area) and is also included in the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL CSA. Hoover’s neighborhoods and planned communities are located along the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Hoover is home to the Riverchase Galleria, one of the largest shopping centers in the Southeast and one of the largest mixed-use centers in the U.S. with 2.4 million square feet (222,967 m²) of total retail floor area. The Riverchase Galleria complex includes shopping, hotel, and office space. The shopping complex major anchor stores are JCPenney, Belk, Macy's, and Sears. The Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team, which traces its history to 1885, plays its home games at the 10,800 seat Regions Park. Michael Jordan's brief professional baseball career was with the Barons in 1994.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis /ˌɪndiəˈnæpɵlɨs/ (abbreviated Indy /ˈɪndi/) is the capital of the US state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 829,718. It is Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S. Census, is the 12th largest city in the U.S., the second largest city in the Midwest (behind Chicago), the second most populous state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona), and the most populous state capital east of the Mississippi River. Indianapolis is also one of the fastest growing regions in the United States.
For much of its history, Indianapolis has oriented itself around government and industry, particularly manufacturing. Today, Indianapolis has a much more diversified economy, contributing to the fields of education, health care, and finance. Tourism is also a vital part of the economy of Indianapolis, and the city plays host to numerous conventions and sporting events. Of these, perhaps the most well known is the annual Indianapolis 500 and the NHRA U.S. Nationals. Other major sporting events include the Brickyard 400 and the Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball Tournaments. 2012 marked the first time Indianapolis hosted the Super Bowl. Super Bowl XLVI was played at Lucas Oil Stadium, on February 5, 2012 in Downtown Indianapolis. Also held in Lucas Oil Stadium is the Drum Corps International World Championships, and the Music for All Bands of America Grand National Championships.
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Kentucky
Kentucky (i/kɨnˈtʌki/), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the Upper South of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the others being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the pastures throughout the state, because of the fertile soil. It made possible the breeding of high-quality livestock, especially thoroughbred racing horses. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park; the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States; and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River. It is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States, the largest free-ranging elk herd east of Montana, and the nation's most productive coalfield. Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, automobile manufacturing, tobacco and college basketball.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County. As of 2010, the city had a population of 178,874 residents, making it the state's third largest city. Knoxville is the principal city of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in 2000 had a population of 655,400. The KMSA is in turn the central component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area, which in 2000 had a population of 1,029,155.
First settled in 1786, Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee. The city struggled with geographic isolation throughout the early 19th century, though the arrival of the railroad in 1855 led to an economic boom. During the Civil War, the city was bitterly divided over the secession issue, and was occupied alternately by both Confederate and Union armies. Following the war, Knoxville grew rapidly as a major wholesaling and manufacturing center. The city's economy stagnated after the 1920s as the manufacturing sector collapsed, the Downtown area declined, and city leaders became entrenched in highly-partisan political fights. Hosting the 1982 World's Fair helped reinvigorate the city, and revitalization initiatives by city leaders and private developers have had some success.
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Lakefront Arena
The Senator Nat G. Kiefer University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena (commonly Lakefront Arena or UNO Lakefront Arena) is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was built in 1983 and is named in honor of Nat G. Kiefer, the late state senator who aided UNO’s efforts to obtain state funding for the building. It is part of the university's East Campus, where most of the school's athletic facilities are located.
It is home to the University of New Orleans Privateers Men's and Women's basketball teams and hosts matches for the women's volleyball team. It hosted the 1991 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, where the University of Tennessee beat the University of Virginia, for their 3rd national title, as well as the 2002 Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament. It is also notable for hosting Larry Bird's career-high of 60 points on March 12, 1985, against the Atlanta Hawks, who were hosting a series of special "home" games in New Orleans during the 1984-1985 season.
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County) is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region. In the 2010 Census the city's population was 295,803, anchoring a metropolitan area of 472,099 people and a Combined Statistical Area of 687,173 people.
Lexington ranks tenth among US cities in college education rate, with 39.5% of residents having at least a bachelor's degree. It is home to the headquarters of Tempur-Pedic, International, Lexmark International, the Kentucky Horse Park, Keeneland race course, Red Mile race course, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky and Bluegrass Community & Technical College.
Lexington was selected as the site of the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games.
Lexington was founded in June 1775 in what was then Virginia (17 years before Kentucky became a state in 1792). A party of frontiersmen, led by William McConnell, camped on the Middle Fork of Elkhorn Creek (today called Town Branch and rerouted under Vine Street) at the location known today as McConnell Springs. Upon hearing of the colonists' victory in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, they named their campsite Lexington after Lexington, Massachusetts. Due to the danger of Indian attacks, permanent settlement was delayed for four years. In 1779, Colonel Robert Patterson and 25 companions came from Fort Harrod and erected a blockhouse. Cabins and a stockade were soon built, making the fort, known as Bryan Station, a place of importance. Colonists defended it against a British and American Indian attack in 1782, during the last part of the American Revolution.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville (i/ˈluːiːvɪl/, local i/ˈluːəvəl/ or i/ˈlʌvəl/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's total consolidated population at the 2010 census was 741,096 (Louisville's balance total, 597,337, excludes semi-autonomous towns and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings). An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville today is best known as the location of the Kentucky Derby, the first of three annual thoroughbred horse races making up the Triple Crown.
Louisville is southeasterly situated along the border between Kentucky and Indiana, the Ohio River, in north-central Kentucky at the Falls of the Ohio. The Louisville metropolitan area is often referred to as Kentuckiana because it includes counties in Southern Indiana. A resident of Louisville is referred to as a Louisvillian. Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Southern and Midwestern culture. It is sometimes referred to as either one of the most northernmost Southern cities or as on of the southernmost Northern cities in the United States along with St. Louis, Missouri and Washington, D.C.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.
Memphis had a population of 662,897 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the 20th largest in the United States. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2010 population of 1,316,100. This makes Memphis the second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed only by metropolitan Nashville, which has overtaken Memphis in recent years. Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as the "Mid-South".
Because it occupies a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis is a natural location for settlement. The area was first settled by the Mississippian Culture and then by the Chickasaw Indian tribe. For 10,000 years they occupied the bluffs along the river, building a large mound on the bluff. European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
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Mike the Tiger
Mike the Tiger is the official mascot of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and serves as the graphic image of LSU sports. By tradition the tiger is a live Bengal tiger, although, the last two tigers were of mixed breeds. Mike V was a Bengali-Indochinese mix, while Mike VI is a Bengali-Siberian hybrid.
Costumed Mike appears at most LSU sporting events and also appears at several LSU-related functions. In August 2007, Costumed Mike was featured on a This Is SportsCenter Commercial with LSU alum Shaquille O'Neal.
LSU's men's and women's sports teams are called the Fighting Tigers and Lady Tigers, respectively, and the university's football team plays its home games in Tiger Stadium. LSU first adopted its "Tigers" nickname in the fall of 1896. The moniker is a reference to the state's Confederate heritage; the Louisiana troops of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia became known as the Tigers during the Civil War in recognition of the bravery of two New Orleans brigades, the Tiger Rifles and the Washington Artillery (whose logo featured a snarling tiger's head).
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis (pronunciation:
i/ˌmɪniːˈæpəlɪs/), nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City", is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States. Its name is attributed to the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city of Minneapolis is 382,578. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with approximately 3.3 million residents. The city is abundantly rich in water, with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. Among cities of similar densities, Minneapolis has the most dedicated parkland. It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing the fifth highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. It has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition of charitable support through progressive public social programs and VOLAGs, as well as private and corporate philanthropy.
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Missouri
Missouri (i/mɨˈzʊəri/) (nickname The Show Me State) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of America and has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the "western-most Eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city". Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were both in Missouri. The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.
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Mizzou Arena
Mizzou Arena is an indoor arena on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, USA. The facility, home to the school's men's and women's basketball teams, opened in November 2004 and replaced the Hearnes Center as the school's main indoor sports facility. The arched-roof building seats 15,061, and is located just south of Hearnes and Memorial Stadium. The arena is host to Missouri State High School Activities Association championships for basketball and wrestling.
Mizzou Arena is double-decked on three sides (the sidelines and the east baseline) and has a single large bleacher section on the west end, where student groups (such as the main "Zou Crew", Student Athletic Board, and the Antlers) stand, as well as Mini Mizzou (basketball band). Seats in the south stand, lower level are fully cushioned theatre-style seats and are sold to the members of the Tiger Scholarship Fund club, the main fund-raising arm for the athletic department. There are around 35 private boxes between the lower and upper levels, offering full food and drink service, televisions and other comforts. The club level has a private bar, The Stalcup Room, named for former Tigers coach and athletic director Wilbur "Sparky" Stalcup. The arena has a wider variety of both concession stands and food choices than Hearnes did, and has a large Tiger Team Store outlet.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities. It is most notably known as a center of the music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City".
Nashville has a consolidated city–county government which includes seven smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. As of the 2010 census the population of the city of Nashville, not including the semi-independent municipalities, stood at 601,222. The population of Davidson County as a whole, including all municipalities, was 626,681. Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States. The 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,589,934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state. The 2010 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,670,890.
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New Orleans
New Orleans ( /nuː ˈɔrliənz/ or /ˈnuː ɔrˈliːnz/, locally /nuː ˈɔrlənz/ or /ˈnɔrlənz/; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃] (
listen)) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city proper was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States. The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a larger trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,214,932.
The city is named after Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and is well known for its distinct French Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is often referred to as the "most unique" in America.
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Olsen Field
Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park is a baseball stadium in College Station, Texas, that is home to the Texas A&M baseball program. The stadium was dedicated on March 21, 1978, and is named in honor of C. E. "Pat" Olsen, a 1923 graduate of Texas A&M University and a former baseball player in the New York Yankees farm system. Olsen Field has served as an NCAA regional site five times and had its 1999 regional attendance ranked second with 53,287. The first NCAA Regional Tournament held at Olsen Field was in 1989.
In 2004 Sports Illustrated on Campus ranked Olsen Field "the best college baseball venue". Aggie baseball fans called RAggies have a reputation of fiercely "ragging" opponents.
Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park (formerly Olsen Field before a $7 million donation from Blue Bell Creameries), underwent a major renovation that began on June 7, 2011. Some new features of the stadium included an expanded concourse and concessions area, luxury suites, a new press box, club seating, two grass berms, expanded locker rooms and coaches offices, a student athletic center, and extended seating closer to the field. However, the seating capacity was decreased from 7,000 to 5,400 to accommodate the changes (although with standing room only will still hold over 7,000). Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park reopened on February 17, 2012 for the first game of the 2012 baseball season even though some projects were not completely finished; the remaining work was completed on non-game days.
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Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha /ˈoʊməhɑː/ is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles (30 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha.
According to the 2010 Census, Omaha's population was 408,958, making it the nation's 42nd-largest city. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2010, with an estimated population of 877,110 residing in eight counties. There are more than 1.2 million residents within a 50-mile (80-km) radius of the city's center, forming the Greater Omaha area.
Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854 when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West." It introduced this new West to the world when in 1898 it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omaha's central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants, gained international prominence.
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Orlando, Florida
Orlando (/ɔrˈlændoʊ/) is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States. The Greater Orlando metropolitan area has a population of 2,134,411, making it the 26th largest metro area in the United States, the sixth largest metro area in the Southeastern United States, and the third largest metro area in Florida. Orlando is the fifth largest city in Florida, and the state's largest inland city.
Orlando is nicknamed "The City Beautiful" and its symbol is the fountain at Lake Eola. The current mayor is Buddy Dyer. The city is best known for the Walt Disney World Resort (located approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Downtown Orlando in Lake Buena Vista), founded by the Walt Disney Company in 1971, and for the Universal Orlando Resort (which consists of two parks, Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure, as well as other attractions, including City Walk). Orlando is also home to the SeaWorld theme park, Gatorland, as well as Wet 'n Wild Water Park. With the exception of Walt Disney World, most major attractions are located along International Drive. The city's famous attractions form the backbone of Orlando's tourism industry, making the city the most visited American city in 2009. The city is also one of the busiest American cities for conferences and conventions. Like other major cities in the Sun Belt, Orlando grew rapidly during the 1980s and well into the first decade of the 21st century. Orlando is also home to the University of Central Florida, which is the second largest university in the United States in terms of enrollment (as of 2011).
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Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract.
As of the 2010 US Census, the population is 18,916. Oxford is the home of the University of Mississippi, founded in 1848, also commonly known as "Ole Miss."
Oxford has been named by USA Today as one of the top six college towns in the nation. It is included in The Best 100 Small Towns in America. Lafayette County consistently leads the state rankings in the lowest unemployment rate per quarter. Oxford City Schools are ranked as "Star" schools, the highest ranking available, and Lafayette County school systems are consistently ranked as "5-star" systems.
Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from lands ceded by the Chickasaw in the treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832. The county was organized in 1836, and in 1837 three pioneers -- John Martin, John Chisom, and John Craig -- purchased land from Hoka, a female Chickasaw landowner, as a site for the town. They named it Oxford, intending to promote it as a center of learning in the Old Southwest. In 1841, the Mississippi legislature selected Oxford as the site of the state university, which opened in 1848.
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Pauley Pavilion
Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion, commonly known as Pauley Pavilion, is an indoor arena located in the Westwood Village district of Los Angeles, California, on the campus of UCLA. It is home to the UCLA Bruins men's and women's basketball teams. The men's and women's volleyball and women's gymnastics teams also play here.
The building, designed by architect Welton Becket, was dedicated in June 1965, named for University of California Regent Edwin W. Pauley, who had matched the alumni contributions. Pauley donated almost one fifth of the more than $5,000,000 spent in building the arena.
Pauley Pavilion contains 10,337 permanent theater-style upholstered seats, plus retractable bleachers for 2,482 spectators, making a total basketball capacity of 12,829. This capacity has been exceeded several times for several men's basketball games by adding portable bleacher seating alongside the retractable bleachers. The single-game attendance record of 13,478 was set on February 23, 1997 (UCLA vs. Duke).
When the bleachers are retracted, there is space for three full-sized basketball courts. These courts are used for team practice, intramural games, and pickup basketball games. It can also serve as a convention hall or large dining area when in this configuration.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( /ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,526,006 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Philadelphia is also the commercial, cultural, and educational center of the Delaware Valley, home to 6 million people and the country's fifth-largest metropolitan area. The Philadelphia metropolitan division consists of five counties in Pennsylvania and has a population of 4,008,994. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek (Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια ([pʰilaˈdelpʰeːa], Modern Greek: [filaˈðelfia]) "brotherly love", compounded from philos (φίλος) "loving", and adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother").
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RCA Dome
RCA Dome (originally Hoosier Dome) was a domed stadium, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the home of the Indianapolis Colts NFL franchise for 24 seasons (1984–2007).
It was completed at a cost of $77.5 million, as part of the Indiana Convention Center, with the costs split between private and public money.
It was demolished in December 2008, as part of a project to expand the attached convention center.
The roof was made up of teflon-coated fiberglass and weighed 257 tons, which was held up by the air pressure inside the building.
The ceiling was 193 feet (59 m) high, though the height varied up to five feet as the materials expanded and contracted with the weather.
As was the case with other domes of this style (the Metrodome, BC Place, the Carrier Dome, and the Pontiac Silverdome) there were warning signs posted cautioning patrons of the high winds at the doors when exiting.
It was similar in design and appearance to the Metrodome and the previous BC Place roof, owing in great part to the involvement of engineers David Geiger and Walter Bird, pioneers in air-supported roofs.
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Reed Arena
Reed Arena is a sports arena and entertainment venue located at the corner of Olsen Boulevard and Kimbrough Boulevard in College Station, Texas. This facility is used for Texas A&M University basketball games and commencement ceremonies, concerts, trade shows, family entertainment, and Texas A&M student programs, including the on-campus Aggie Muster. The building replaced the G. Rollie White Coliseum, and is named for Dr. & Mrs. Chester J. Reed, a 1947 A&M graduate whose donations made the new arena possible.
In 2005, Reed Arena served as the site of men's and women's first round NIT games, as the men played Clemson and the women played Tulsa.
In recent years, Reed Arena has gained a reputation as one of the most hostile arenas in the nation, coinciding with the men's and women's Aggie basketball teams rise to national prominence. This is partly due to a group of students calling themselves the Reed Rowdies, which have been instrumental in helping to create an energetic fan atmosphere during basketball games similar to that of football games at Kyle Field.
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Rupp Arena
Rupp Arena is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. Since its opening in 1976, it has been the centerpiece of Lexington Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, which is located next to the Lexington Hyatt and Hilton hotels. Rupp Arena also serves as home court to the University of Kentucky men's basketball program. With an official capacity of 23,500, it is the largest basketball arena in the United States. In Rupp Arena, the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team annually leads the nation in college basketball attendance. The arena also regularly hosts concerts, conventions, and shows.
The arena's primary tenant is the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program, but the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team has also hosted games there in recent years, particularly an upset in early 2006 of the #1 Tennessee Lady Vols. Rupp Arena was the host of the 1985 NCAA Final Four, won in an upset by Villanova. It also formerly hosted the Kentucky Thoroughblades (currently the Worcester Sharks) (capacity 10,011) and the Lexington Men O' War (capacity 7,500) minor-league hockey teams, and the Lexington Horsemen arena football team (capacity 7,550), numerous concerts (theater capacity 2,300; concert hall 10,000; arena capacity 23,500), conventions, and other events. It is named after UK coaching legend Adolph Rupp, and opened in 1976, a little more than a year before Rupp's death in late 1977. Since the 1985 Final Four, Rupp Arena has hosted a number of NCAA Tournament regional games, most recently in 2007. Rupp Arena is scheduled to host second and third round NCAA Tournament games in 2013. Rupp Arena is also home to Kentucky's high school boy's basketball Sweet Sixteen, a single elimination tournament which determines the state champion with sixteen teams representing each of Kentucky's regional high school champions.
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San Antonio
San Antonio ( /ˌsænænˈtoʊni.oʊ/) is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.3 million. It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000-2010, and the second from 1990-2000. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. San Antonio has characteristics of other western urban centers in which there are sparsely populated areas and a low density rate outside of the city limits. The city is one of the two principal municipalities of the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area, the other being New Braunfels. Commonly referred to as Greater San Antonio, the metropolitan area has a population of 2.2 million based on the 2011 U.S. Census estimate, making it the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States and third-largest in the state of Texas.
The city was named for San Antonio de Padua, whose feast day is on June 13, when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. Famous for Spanish missions, the Alamo, the River Walk, the Tower of the Americas, the Alamo Bowl, Marriage Island and host to SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by approximately 26 million tourists per year according to the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau. The city is home to the four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs and the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest in the country.
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Sarge Frye Field
Sarge Frye Field was a baseball stadium in Columbia, South Carolina and served as home field of the University of South Carolina Gamecock baseball team until the 2008 season. The stadium held 6,000 people and was named after a longtime grounds keeper of the school's athletic fields. On February 21, 2009, USC began playing at the new Carolina Stadium. The last game at Sarge Frye was played on May 17, 2008.
Coordinates: 33°59′7″N 81°1′22″W / 33.98528°N 81.02278°W / 33.98528; -81.02278
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Seattle
Seattle (pronounced /siːˈætɫ̩/ ( listen) see-AT-əl or /siːˈæɾɫ̩/) is the county seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country. The city is a major coastal seaport situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 114 miles (183 km) south of the Canada–United States border. In 2010, Seattle was the sixth busiest port in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trade with Asia.
The Seattle area had been inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent white settlers.Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to its current site and renamed "Seattle" in 1853, after Chief Seattle of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
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South Carolina
South Carolina (i/ˌsaʊθ kærəˈlaɪnə/) is a state in the Southeastern United States. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina; to the south and west by Georgia, located across the Savannah River; and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence from the British Crown during the American Revolution. The colony was originally named by King Charles II of England in honor of his father Charles I (Carolus being Latin for Charles). South Carolina was the 8th state to ratify the US Constitution and become a state which it did on May 23, 1788. South Carolina later became the first state to vote to secede from the Union which it did on December 20, 1860. It was readmitted to the United States on June 25, 1868.
South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and the 24th most populous of the 50 United States. South Carolina comprises 46 counties. The capital and largest city of the state is Columbia.
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St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/ (French: Saint-Louis or St-Louis, [sɛ̃ lwi] ( listen)) is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States, and is the second-largest city in the state. With a population of 318,069 in July 2011, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population of 2,812,896 is the 18th-largest in the country. The Greater St. Louis combined statistical area's (CSA) population of 2,878,255 is the 16th-largest CSA in the country, the fourth-largest in the Midwest. The Greater St. Louis area is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri.
The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and after the Louisiana Purchase, it became a major port on the Mississippi River. Its population expanded after the American Civil War, and it became the fourth-largest city in the United States in the late 19th century. It seceded from St. Louis County in March 1877, allowing it to become an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Olympic Games. The city's population peaked in 1950, then began a long decline that reversed only at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( /təˈkoʊmə/, US dict: tə·kō′·mə) is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region that has a population of around 1 million people.
Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Mount Tahoma. It is known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay with the railroad Tacoma's motto became "When rails meet sails." Today Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of international trade on the Pacific Coast and Washington state's largest port.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa (pronunciation: /ˈtæmpə/) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County and is located on the west coast of Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709.
The current location of Tampa was once inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Safety Harbor culture, most notably the Tocobaga and the Pohoy, who lived along the shores of Tampa Bay. It was briefly explored by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, but there were no permanent American or European settlements within today's city limits until after the United States had acquired Florida from Spain in 1819.
In 1824, the United States Army established a frontier outpost called Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, near the site of today's Tampa Convention Center. The first civilian residents were pioneers who settled near the fort for protection from the nearby Seminole population. The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.
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Taylor Stadium
Ralph and Debbie Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field (also Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field) is a baseball stadium in Columbia, Missouri. It is the home field of the University of Missouri baseball team. It was also the home of the defunct Mid-Missouri Mavericks minor league baseball team of the Frontier League.
It originally opened in 2002 and holds 3,031 people. The stadium was named for Ralph Taylor (a Mizzou alumnus) and his wife Debbie, who gave $1 million to build the stadium.
Prior to the 2010 season, renovations were completed that included an indoor facility that houses batting cages, two dirt pitching mounds, a team meeting room and a conference room, a new videoboard and scoreboard, a larger home bullpen, a renovated visitors bullpen, new railings in front of each of the dugouts, padded outfield walls, a brick wall that outlines foul territory, and new signage on Devine Pavilion that recognized Mizzou's retired numbers and the Tigers' NCAA postseason appearances.
Future renovation plans call for a new home clubhouse/locker room and coaches offices along the left-field foul line and additional seating along the right-field line.
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Texas
Texas (i/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
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Texas A&M; University
Texas A&M University (often referred to as A&M or TAMU) is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas, United States. It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school history. Texas A&M's designation as a land, sea, and space grant institution reflects a broad range of research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. The school ranks in the top 20 American research institutes in terms of funding and has made notable contributions to such fields as animal cloning and petroleum engineering.
The first public institution of higher education in Texas, the school opened on October 4, 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Its original mission was to educate white males in farming and military techniques. Under the leadership of President James Earl Rudder, in the 1960s A&M desegregated, became coeducational, and dropped the requirement for participation in the Corps of Cadets. To reflect the institution's expanded roles and academic offerings, the Texas Legislature renamed the school to Texas A&M University in 1963. The letters "A&M", originally short for "Agricultural and Mechanical", are retained only as a link to the university's past. The school's students, alumni, and sports teams are known as "Aggies".
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa (/tʌskəˈluːsə/ TUSK-ə-LOO-sə) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama (in the southeastern United States). Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010. It is the principal city of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Tuscaloosa, Greene, and Hale counties, and whose estimated metro population in 2012 was 221,553. A former capital of Alabama, Tuscaloosa is named after Tuskaloosa, the chieftain of a Muskogean-speaking people, who battled and was defeated by Hernando de Soto in 1540 in the Battle of Mabila.
Tuscaloosa is the regional center of industry, commerce, healthcare, and education for the area of west-central Alabama known as West Alabama. Tuscaloosa is also the home of the University of Alabama, Stillman College and Shelton State Community College. While the city attracted international attention when Mercedes-Benz announced it would build its first automotive assembly plant in North America in Tuscaloosa County, the University of Alabama remains the dominant economic and cultural engine in the city.
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Bernie Moore
Bernie H. Moore (April 30, 1895 – November 6, 1967) was an American college football, basketball, track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mercer University (1926–1928) and Louisiana State University (1935–1947). Moore was also the head basketball coach at Mercer (1926–1928) and the head track and field coach at LSU (1930–1947). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1952.
Moore was the son of a Baptist minister and graduated from Carson–Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
In addition to two Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships in football won at LSU, his track and field teams won twelve SEC titles and the national championship in 1933. LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium is named in his honor.
After ending his tenure at LSU, the longest of any coach at the university to that point, Moore became SEC Commissioner in 1948. In 1967, he won the inaugural James J. Corbett Memorial Award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1966. His last residence was the Henderson Clark-Moore House in Winchester, Tennessee.
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Bill Stanfill
William Thomas Stanfill (born January 13, 1947) is a former defensive end for the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League and then the NFL after the AFL-NFL merger of 1970.
Stanfill attended Cairo High School in Cairo, Georgia, where he was a three-sport star in football, basketball, and track and field. In football, as a senior, he was named the Class AA Lineman of the Year after leading his team to three Region Championships. In basketball, as a senior, he led his team to the state championship and was named the state tournament MVP. In track and field, he added three state discus and one shot put AA titles.
Stanfill played defensive tackle for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1966 through 1968. He was awarded the Outland Trophy in 1968 and was named an All-American the same year. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Georgia in 1971. Stanfill was voted All-SEC in 1966, 1967 and 1968 and was the SEC Lineman of The Year in 1968. In addition, he was an Academic All-America that same season. During his three seasons at Georgia, the Bulldogs had a 26-6-2 record along wit two Southeastern Conference titles: one in 1966 (co-champions) and the other in 1968. During that time the Bulldogs also appeared in three bowl games: the Cotton Bowl Classic in 1966, the Liberty Bowl in 1967 and the Sugar Bowl in 1968. Georgia beat SMU in the Cotton Bowl Classic, lost to North Carolina State in the Liberty and lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks in the Sugar.
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Billy Neighbors
William Wesley "Billy" Neighbors (February 4, 1940 – April 30, 2012) was an American football guard who played in the American Football League from (1962–1969). Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he played college football at the University of Alabama where he was an All-American, and was selected in sixth round of the 1962 AFL Draft. Neighbors was also drafted in the fourth round of the 1962 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins.
Neighbors was selected to the Boston Patriots All-1960s (AFL) Team and was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
His son, Wes Neighbors, was an Alabama All-SEC center from 1984 to 1986.
Neighbors died of a heart attack in 2012.
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Bob Suffridge
Robert Lee "Bob" Suffridge (March 17, 1916 – March 3, 1974) was an American football player in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Tennessee, where he was later inducted into the school's hall of fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. Suffridge also served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Suffridge attended Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Suffridge played college football at the University of Tennessee, where he played under coach Robert Neyland from 1938–1940. He was a three time All American, receiving the honor each year of his playing career.
Suffridge was noted for his quickness. As one bio states "Suffridge was so quick he once blocked the same point-after- touchdown three times, twice called for off-sides when many observers felt he wasn't." During his time at Tennessee, the Volunteers did not lose a regular season game.
"Robert Neyland never wanted to answer when asked, ’Who were your greatest players?’ But, when pressed, he would reluctantly answer, ’I’ll start a team, but will not attempt to complete it. You’ll have to start with Bob Suffridge the greatest lineman I ever saw and that’s as far as I will go with the line. For a backfield, you’ll start with Gene McEver, the greatest I ever coached.’"
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Charley Trippi
Charles Louis Trippi (born December 14, 1921) is a former professional American football player for the Chicago Cardinals. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
Trippi currently resides in Athens, Georgia. The football stadium at Pittston Area High School (Pittston, Pennsylvania) is named "Charley Trippi Stadium" in his honor.
Trippi attended the University of Georgia and was a two-time All-America selection. He played for Georgia in 1942 along side Heisman winner Frank Sinkwich. Georgia finished the season 11-1 and were named consensus national champions. He was named Most Valuable Player in the 1943 Rose Bowl in Georgia's 9-0 victory over UCLA. After his college career was interrupted by World War II, he completed his career at Georgia by playing in 1945 and 1946. He won the Maxwell Award in the 1946 season. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Trippi lives in Athens, Georgia with his second wife, Margaret. He had three children, Charles Jr., Brenda, and Jo Ann with his first wife, Virginia, who died in 1971. Charley Trippi's grandson, Nick Trippi, also resides in Athens, GA. He is a decorated military policeman in the United States Marine Corps having served two tours in Iraq where he received the Purple Heart, and one tour in Afghanistan. He is currently the head of security and surveillance at the Cloud, one of Athens largest night clubs.
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Craig Colquitt
Joseph Craig Colquitt (born June 9, 1954) is a retired American football punter who spent seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1978–1981, 1983–1984) and Indianapolis Colts (1987). He was a member of two Super Bowl Champions with the Steelers in 1978 and 1979. He is the father of two current NFL punters, Dustin and Britton Colquitt. His nephew Jimmy Colquitt was a punter for the Seattle Seahawks in 1985. All four played college football at the University of Tennessee. Craig was inducted into the Greater Knoxville Hall of Fame July 16, 2009.
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Don Hutson
Donald Montgomery Hutson (January 31, 1913 – June 26, 1997) was the first star wide receiver in National Football League history. He is considered by many to have been the first modern receiver.
In his senior season at the University of Alabama in 1934, Hutson was a first team All-American for six different organizations and a second team selection by one other. After his career at Alabama, he joined the Green Bay Packers in 1935 and retired in 1945 after 11 seasons.
Hutson is credited with creating many of the modern pass routes used in the NFL today. He was the dominant receiver of his day and is widely considered to be one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history, holding almost all important receiving records at the time of his retirement. As of the end of the 2009 NFL season, Hutson still holds the following records: Most seasons leading league in pass receptions (8), Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receptions (5), Most seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (7), Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving yards gained (4), Most seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (9), Most consecutive seasons leading league in pass receiving touchdowns (5), Most seasons leading league in scoring (5), and Most consecutive seasons leading league in scoring (5) (Source: NFL Record and fact book).
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Don McNeal
Don McNeal (born May 6, 1958) is a former American professional football player who played defensive back for the Miami Dolphins in the 1980s.
McNeal was born and raised in Atmore, Alabama. He is a 1976 graduate of Escambia County (Alabama) High School where he was a star on the football team. He played college football at the University of Alabama for the legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. McNeal played on Alabama's 1978 and 1979 national championship teams; he was Captain of the Team in 1979. In 1992, he was selected as a member of the University of Alabama All-Centennial Team.
The Miami Dolphins drafted McNeal as a defensive back in 1980. McNeal played in two Super Bowls with the Dolphins: Super Bowl XVII in January 1983 and Super Bowl XIX in January 1985. During the same two seasons that those Super Bowls were held (1982 & 1984), McNeal was named the Dolphins' Player of the Year. He retired at the end of the 1989 season having played his entire pro career with the Dolphins.
McNeal was involved in one of the more famous plays in the annals of professional football, which took place in Super Bowl XVII. Late in the game with fourth down and inches to go, McNeal was unable to bring down Washington Redskins running back John Riggins, and he rumbled 43 yards into the endzone for the game winning touchdown. Riggins' Run is the Redskins' "Greatest Moment of all time" as voted on by Redskin fans. This became not only a famous play but also a famous photograph as well.
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Doug Atkins
Douglas Leon Atkins (born May 8, 1930 in Humboldt, Tennessee) is a former American football defensive end who played for the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints in the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Tennessee under legendary head coach Robert Neyland. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Atkins was a fierce defender who was known for using his immense size and agility to his advantage. At 6'8", Atkins would often bat passes down at the line of scrimmage and would use his skills as a high jump champion to leapfrog blockers and get to the quarterback. Atkins was one of the first great exclusively defensive players in professional football and, along with fellow Hall of Famer Gino Marchetti, revolutionized the defensive end position.
Atkins originally went to Tennessee on a basketball scholarship, but once football coach General Robert R. Neyland saw his combination of size and agility, he was recruited for the grid team. After he earned All-America honors in 1952, the Cleveland Browns selected him with their first choice in the 1953 NFL Draft. Atkins also played on the 1951 Tennessee Volunteers football team that won the national championship. Atkins is one of the few players in Tennessee history to have his number retired. He was considered one of, if not the, most dominant defensive players in SEC history. Atkins was the only unanimous selection to the SEC All Quarter-Century team and was selected as the overall SEC "Player of the Quarter-Century" for the years 1950-1975.
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Dwight Stephenson
Dwight Eugene Stephenson (born November 20, 1957, in Murfreesboro, North Carolina) is a former American football offensive lineman and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 1998. He played for the Miami Dolphins from 1980 until 1987, when his left knee sustained an injury in a play involving New York Jets Marty Lyons and Joe Klecko.
Stephenson was an All-American at the University of Alabama, under coach Bear Bryant. Bryant called Stephenson the best player he ever coached, regardless of position. He was drafted by Don Shula and the Dolphins in the second round of the 1980 draft. The 6'2", 255 pound center would eventually become regarded by many as the best center of all time, but was used on special teams only until late in the 1981 season, when Mark Dennard was injured.
With the exceptionally explosive Stephenson as offensive captain, the Dolphins offensive line gave up the least sacks in the National Football League for a record 6 straight seasons, from 1982–1987, which doubled the length of the previous record. After he left, the Dolphins' line would continue to protect the pocket superbly, extending the record to 9 straight seasons.
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Frank Kinard
Frank Manning "Bruiser" Kinard Sr. (October 23, 1914 – September 7, 1985) was a professional American football player for the Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers of the National Football League and the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He played college football at the University of Mississippi and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
Bruiser is considered to be one of the greatest players in Ole Miss and college football history. He lettered for the Rebels from 1935–37 and served as co-captain of the 1937 Ole Miss squad. While playing tackle, the Rebels compiled a record of 18-13-3 including a 9-3 record in 1936 which featured the school's first appearance in a bowl game in the 1936 Orange Bowl in Miami (a 20-19 loss to Catholic University). He was an All American and All SEC pick in 1936 and 1937. Bruiser was the school's first All American football player.
He played in the 1938 Chicago All-Star game and was voted to the Southern Living South's Greatest Players Team. Kinard was inducted into the Ole Miss Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. He is a charter member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, having been inducted in the inaugural class in 1961 along with "Goat" Hale, Dudy Noble, and Stanley Robinson. He is also a member of the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame.
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Fuad Reveiz
Fuad Reveiz (born February 24, 1963 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a former placekicker for the Miami Dolphins, the San Diego Chargers, and the Minnesota Vikings. He played for Miami Sunset Senior High and was voted one of the top high school football players from Miami of all time by the Miami Herald.[citation needed] Due to his reliability in medium-range field goals, he was dubbed with the nickname "Fuad-o-matic" later in his career. In college, he played for the University of Tennessee. He kicked 188 field goals and 367 extra points in his eleven-year National Football League career. He was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1994 season. After his retirement from pro football, he founded a home remodeling company called Reveiz and Co., and is now the host of the Weekend Remodeling television show on the DIY Network. He now resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has three children: Bryanna attends Farragut High School; Shane and Nick attend the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where Shane is a walk-on and Nick is a starting middle linebacker.
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Gaynell Tinsley
Gaynell Charles "Gus" Tinsley (February 1, 1915 – July 24, 2002) was an American football end and coach. He was a consensus All-American for Louisiana State in 1935 and 1936 and an All-NFL selection while playing for the Chicago Cardinals in 1937 and 1938. During his three years in the NFL, Tinsley set or tied NFL single-season records with 674 receiving yards in 1937 and 41 pass receptions in 1938. He later served as the head football coach at LSU from 1948–1954.
Tinsley was born in Ruple, Louisiana and raised in Homer, Louisiana in the northern part of the state. He attended Louisiana State University where he played football and baseball and was selected as the captain of both teams. He was considered one of the greatest receivers in college football, earning consensus All-American honors in both 1935 and 1936. As a junior in 1935, Tinsley was named as a first-team All-American by the Associated Press,United Press,Liberty Magazine (selected based on a poll of 1,521 varsity players in all parts of the country),Collier's Weekly, the Newspaper Editors Association, the International News Service, and the New York Sun. In 1936, Tinsley repeated as a first-team All-American with each of these publications and also received the first-team designation from the Central Press Association (selected by the captains of more than 50 college football teams at "important universities and colleges throughout the United States"), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
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Harvey Schiller
Harvey W. Schiller, Ph.D., is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Global Options Group, a multidisciplinary international risk management and business solutions company. In addition, Dr. Schiller has been named to the newly-created position of Vice Chairman and President of the Sports, Media, and Entertainment Practice of "Diversified Search", one of the top global executive search firms., and Chairman of Schiller Management Group LLC, a business consulting group. He now also serves as Vice Chair of America's Cup 2013 Advisory Board. He also recently served as President of the International Baseball Federation, the international governing body for baseball and continues to work with the federation to return the sport of baseball to the Olympic program..
Schiller came to GlobalOptions from a position as Chairman of Assante U.S., a leading provider of financial and life management products. Prior to joining Assante, Schiller served as Chairman and CEO of YankeeNets, an integrated sports-based media company with ownership of the New York Yankees, New Jersey Nets, and New Jersey Devils, the precursor to the highly successful YES network. Until December, 1999, Dr. Schiller served as vice president, sports programming for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; president of Turner Sports, Inc., a division of Time Warner; and president and governor of the NHL expansion franchise, Atlanta Thrashers. Schiller was one of the executives in charge of World Championship Wrestling. He once appeared on the wrestling show WCW Monday Nitro, when he suspended WCW president Eric Bischoff in March 1997. Bischoff mentioned in his book "Controversy Creates Cash" that he and Schiller were actually friends.
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Jack Youngblood
Herbert Jackson Youngblood, III (born January 26, 1950) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Before playing professionally, Youngblood played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. He is considered among the best players Florida ever produced—a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and one of only five Florida Gators to be named to the Gator Football Ring of Honor.
After retiring as a player in 1985, Youngblood worked in the Rams' front office until 1991. He also worked in the front office of the Sacramento Surge of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1992 to 1993, and the administration of the CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners from 1993 to 1994. He was a vice-president, then president, of the Orlando Predators from 1995 until 1999. From 1999 through 2002, he served as the NFL's liaison for the Arena Football League.
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Jeff Brantley
Jeffrey Hoke (Jeff) Brantley, (born September 5, 1963 in Florence, Alabama), is a former relief pitcher and current Major League Baseball broadcaster. His 14-year playing career lasted from 1988 to 2001.
Brantley played college baseball at Mississippi State University, where he was a teammate of Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Thigpen on a Bulldogs team that participated in the 1985 College World Series. He is the co-holder of the SEC record for career wins by a pitcher with 45, along with University of South Carolina and Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Kip Bouknight.
He played for the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, all of the National League, and the Texas Rangers of the American League. He was also a member of the 1989 San Francisco Giants team that defeated the Chicago Cubs to win the National League pennant and eventually lost to the Oakland A's in the World Series.
An All-Star in 1990, Brantley led the National League in 1996 with 44 saves.
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Lee Roy Jordan
Lee Roy Jordan (born April 27, 1941) is a retired American football linebacker. After attending the University of Alabama, playing under head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, he spent 14 years in the National Football League playing for the Dallas Cowboys between 1963–1976. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.
Between 1960–1962, Jordan was a standout for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team under legendary head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. He played as both a linebacker and center for the team. In his sophomore season of 1960, he helped the Crimson Tide finish with an 8–2–1 record. In the Bluebonnet Bowl, versus the Texas Longhorns, he was named the game's MVP in a 3–3 tie.
The following year, Jordan was again an important part of the team as Alabama finished with an 11–0 record, a SEC Championship, and a National Championship. The season included six shutouts, which included a 34–0 blowout of rival Auburn. Alabama wrapped up the season with a 10–3 victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
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Lou Michaels
Lou Michaels is a former American football player who was a standout defensive lineman for the University of Kentucky Wildcats, 1955-57. After Kentucky's victory over archrival Tennessee in 1957, Michaels was quoted as saying, "Nothing sucks like a Big Orange." Michaels later played pro football for 14 years, 1958–1971, with the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He also excelled as a placekicker, and was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1962 and 1963 seasons.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992. His brother Walt Michaels also played in the NFL.
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Michael Slive
Michael Lawrence "Mike" Slive (born July 26, 1940) is an American attorney and college sports executive. Slive is the current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), a college athletics association. As part of his role as the SEC Commissioner, he served as the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series for the 2006 and 2007 regular seasons. He was a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee through September 2009 and served as the chairman of the committee for the 2008–09 academic year.
Slive became the seventh commissioner of the SEC on July 1, 2002. He previously was the first commissioner of Conference USA from 1995 to 2002, and the first commissioner of the Great Midwest Conference upon its founding in 1991.
Slive's contract with the Southeastern Conference has been extended through July 31, 2012, announced on March 6, 2009.
Early in his career, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm. He was assistant director of athletics at Dartmouth College, assistant executive director of the Pacific-10 Conference, and director of athletics at Cornell University from 1981 to 1983. In 1990, he became senior partner and founder of the Mike Slive-Mike Glazier Sports Group, a legal practice specializing in representing colleges and universities in athletics-related matters.
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Ozzie Newsome
Ozzie Newsome Jr. (born March 16, 1956 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama) is a former American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns, an inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the current General Manager of the Baltimore Ravens.
Before his NFL career, Newsome played for the University of Alabama, where he started for all 4 years of his college career. Newsome made the College Football All-America Team in 1977 and assisted the Crimson Tide to a 42 and 6 overall record during his four seasons. In total, Newsome amassed 102 receptions for 2,070 receiving yards. His 20.3 average yards per catch was a Southeast Conference record. Newsome was named the Player of the Decade for the 1970s [1]. In 1994, Newsome was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Nicknamed "The Wizard of Oz" at The University of Alabama, Newsome was the 23rd pick in the 1978 NFL Draft for the Cleveland Browns. He was named the Browns' Offensive Player of the Year his rookie year, the first time in 25 years that a rookie had received that honor. Ozzie earned All-Pro honors the following year, 1979, and again in 1984. Newsome went to the Pro Bowl in 1981, 1984 and 1985. In 1986, Newsome won the Ed Block Courage Award for playing with injuries, while in 1990 Newsome won the "Whizzer" White NFL Man of the Year Award for his community service.
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Paul "Bear" Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for most wins as head coach in collegiate football history with 323 wins, a record broken by John Gagliardi in 1996. Bryant's mark has since also been surpassed by his longtime friend Joe Paterno, by Eddie Robinson, and by Bobby Bowden. At the University of Alabama, the Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive and Bryant–Denny Stadium are all named in his honor. He was also known for his trademark black and white houndstooth or gingham hat, deep voice, casually leaning up against the goal post during pre-game warmups, and frequently holding his rolled-up game plan while on the sidelines.
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Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro Corrales (born September 24, 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and left fielder. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. He played for the Cubs (1986–1988), Texas Rangers (1989–1993, 1999–2003), and the Baltimore Orioles (1994–1998, 2004–2005). He was named to the MLB All-Star Team four times, and won the Gold Glove three times. He is a member of the exclusive 500 home run club and the 3,000 hit club and is only the fourth player in history to be a member of both.
Days after recording his 3,000th hit, Palmeiro was suspended for testing positive for an anabolic steroid.
Palmeiro was born in Havana, Cuba and graduated from Miami Jackson High School. He played college baseball at Mississippi State University. Although he was drafted by the New York Mets in the 8th round of the 1982 draft, he did not sign. On June 11, 1985, Palmeiro signed with the Chicago Cubs as the 22nd pick in the 1st round of the 1985 draft. Rafael Palmeiro played baseball during early years in Miami, together with Jose Canseco and many other players. The coach that they play under was Osvaldo Morales who used to coach Jose Canseco in Miami Coral Park Hight School at the Junior Varsity team.
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Ray Tanner
Ray Tanner (born March 25, 1958) is in his 16th season as the head baseball coach at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. His record since arriving at Carolina in 1997 is 729-313 (.700). He led USC to three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2004, two College World Series Championships in 2010 and 2011, and coached the USA Baseball National Team during the 2003 summer. His South Carolina teams have qualified for thirteen consecutive NCAA postseasons (the longest active streak in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)). On April 11, 2010, Tanner recorded the 1,000th win of his career with a 2-0 victory over Vanderbilt, becoming the 44th Division I coach in history to reach the milestone.
After graduating from South Johnston High School in Four Oaks, North Carolina, Ray Tanner attended North Carolina State University, in Raleigh from 1977 to 1980. He played for Sam Esposito, starting four seasons at shortstop and third base.
Tanner became an assistant coach to NCSU coach Sam Esposito immediately after his playing days were over. He remained in that position from 1980–1987, when Esposito retired and Tanner was named his successor. At age 28, he was one of the youngest head coaches in the country. During his first season the Wolfpack reached the NCAA tournament, playing in the East Regional. His teams earned bids to the NCAA tournament during seven of his nine seasons as head coach at NCSU, including five straight from 1990-1994. He was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1990.
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Roy Kramer
Roy Kramer is a former American college football coach and athletics administrator. Kramer was the head football coach for Central Michigan University from 1967 to 1977, compiling a record of 83–32–2. He then served as the athletic director at Vanderbilt University from 1978 to 1990, and later as the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference from 1990 to 2002, where he created the Bowl Championship Series.
Before coaching at Central Michigan, Kramer coached high school football for nine years in Michigan.
Kramer became the sixth commissioner of the Southeastern Conference on January 10, 1990. Within seven months of his appointment, the conference announced plans for expansion, adding Arkansas and South Carolina officially on July 1, 1991. Following expansion, Kramer guided the conference in formulating divisional play and the first Division I-A conference football championship game.
During his tenure at the helm of the SEC, the conference won 81 national championships, the most ever in a decade by the league. Kramer oversaw the distribution of a then-league record $95.7 million to its member institutions for 2001–02. Kramer negotiated multi-sport national television packages with CBS and ESPN, featuring football and men's and women's basketball, through the 2008–09 season.
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Suzanne Yoculan
Suzanne Paige Yoculan was the head coach of the women's gymnastics program at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia from 1983 to 2009. During her tenure, she built the Georgia gymnastics program into a national powerhouse and is one of the most decorated coaches in the history of collegiate gymnastics.
Yoculan graduated from Penn State University in 1975 with a degree in therapeutic recreation with a dance emphasis. She was named the head women's gymnastics coach at the University of Georgia on August 24, 1983, and coached her first meet against the University of Alabama Crimson Tide on December 3, 1983. During her 26 years at the helm, Georgia's gymnastics team, the "Gym Dogs," posted a meet record of 831-117-7 (.870 winning percentage). Under Yoculan, the Gym Dogs won 16 Southeastern Conference Championships and 10 NCAA championships, including a run of 5 consecutive national championships during her final 5 seasons.
Since 2000, she has been in a long-term relationship with UGA Board of Regent member Don Leebern, even though Leebern is still married to another woman. This relationship has been controversial for several reasons, including the fact that Leeburn is one of the longest-serving members of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. In addition, the UGA Athletic Department self-reported a Level I secondary NCAA rules violation in December, 2004, regarding an all-expenses paid trip to New York City for Yoculan and 6 seniors from the Gymnastics team. On the trip, all expenses were paid by Leebern and the party flew aboard Leebern's privately owned airplane. In response, the SEC stripped the program of one scholarship for one year; and Yoculan received a letter of reprimand, was forbidden from recruiting off campus for one year, and was required to attend a regional NCAA rules seminar.
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Terry Beasley
Terry Paul Beasley (born February 5, 1950 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a former American football player. He played collegiately at Auburn where he earned varsity credits 1969-1971. In his college career, Beasley amassed 141 receptions, 2,507 yards and 29 touchdowns. He was an All-American as a wide receiver in 1970 and 1971. He led the Southeastern Conference in receptions, receiving yards and scoring in 1970 with 52 receptions, 1,051 receiving yards and 72 points. In 1971, he was named the College Pass Receiver of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Columbus.[citation needed] Beasley was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Beasley was selected in the first round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers, with whom he spent the duration of his short professional career before injuries forced his retirement following the 1975 season.
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Tommy Casanova
Thomas Henry "Tommy" Casanova, III (born July 29, 1950) is an ophthalmologist in Crowley, Louisiana, and a former American football player and politician. He played football for the LSU Tigers and the Cincinnati Bengals. He was also a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996 to 2000.
Born in New Orleans, Casanova graduated in 1968 from the Roman Catholic Notre Dame High School in Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish.
After high school, Casanova went to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he became one of the greatest LSU football players in the history of the institution. He played three seasons for LSU: 1969, 1970, and 1971. At LSU, Casanova did it all, playing running back, punt returner, kick returner, and defensive back. During each of his three years at LSU, he was selected as a member of the College Football All-America Team (Casanova is the only three-time All-American in LSU history). In the September 13, 1971 issue of Sports Illustrated, the magazine featured Casanova on the front cover, with the headline: "Tommy Casanova of LSU, Best Player in the Nation." In 2000, the Walter Camp Football Foundation selected Casanova for their All-Century team (honoring the best college football players of the 20th century). Major games from Casanova's time at LSU include #9 LSU's 21-20 victory over #14 Auburn in 1969 (televised on ABC), #14 LSU's 17-9 victory at #6 Auburn in 1970, #11 LSU's 14-9 victory at #19 Alabama in 1970 (televised on ABC), #8 LSU's 61-17 victory over #16 Ole Miss in 1970 (televised on ABC), and #14 LSU's 28-8 victory over #7 Notre Dame in 1971 (televised on ABC). His jersey (#37) was retired from LSU football on October 10, 2009.
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Tucker Frederickson
Ivan Charles "Tucker" Frederickson (born January 12, 1943 in Hollywood, Florida) was an American football running back for the New York Giants of the NFL. Frederickson attended South Broward High School then moved on to Auburn University, and was a two-way player with the Tigers football team (averaging 4.4 yards per carry on offense and leading the team in interceptions as a safety on defense). In 1964, he won the Jacobs Award as the best blocking back in the Southeastern Conference and was a runner up in the Heisman Trophy race. Coach Shug Jordan called him "the most complete football player I've ever seen". He was an All-American in 1964. Frederickson was the first overall pick in the 1965 NFL Draft having been selected by the New York Giants, with whom he played with until a knee injury forced his retirement in 1971 (six total playing seasons). Frederickson was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Will Clark
William Nuschler Clark, Jr. (born March 13, 1964) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the San Francisco Giants from 1986 to 1993. Will was known by the nickname of "Will the Thrill." One story states that he earned the nicknames by his classmates at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where he played both varsity baseball and varsity basketball. The more common story states that former teammate Bob Brenly gave Clark the moniker after Clark reportedly stated, "I'm just thrilled to be here," when asked about his recent call-up to the big leagues. The nickname has often been truncated to simply, "The Thrill." Another more generic nickname shared by Will, as well as other players past and present, is "The Natural" because of his natural gifts as a baseball player. Ken Griffey Jr., Jeff Francoeur, Rick Ankiel, and most recently, Josh Hamilton have also donned the epic nickname.
Clark was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame on August 1, 2008. [2]
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Southeastern Conference Football 2012
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I can already smell 7 straight. A Brandino Production. Music: Sunny Ledfurd - Nickel Sized Hail Clips from ESPN, CBS, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU GO DAWGS!
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I can already smell 7 straight. A Brandino Production. Music: Sunny Ledfurd - Nickel Sized Hail Clips from ESPN, CBS, ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU GO DAWGS!
Southeastern Conference Headquarters Tour
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- Updated: 20 Jun 2012
Abby Chin takes viewers on a tour through the SEC offices in Birmingham, Alabama. She interviews Charlie Hussey, Director of Marketing/Licensing, about the history of the office and some of the employees' roles at the SEC.
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Abby Chin takes viewers on a tour through the SEC offices in Birmingham, Alabama. She interviews Charlie Hussey, Director of Marketing/Licensing, about the history of the office and some of the employees' roles at the SEC.
- published: 30 Mar 2011
- views: 727
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
The Conference of Champions
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- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
To be the best you have to beat the best. Today's feature takes a look at the unprecedented success in the Southeastern Conference as Texas A&M; coaches and players share their thoughts on the "Conference of Champions." More: aggi.es
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To be the best you have to beat the best. Today's feature takes a look at the unprecedented success in the Southeastern Conference as Texas A&M; coaches and players share their thoughts on the "Conference of Champions." More: aggi.es
- published: 26 Jun 2012
- views: 1861
- author: AggieAthletics
Missouri announces move to Southeastern Conference
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University of Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton, University of Florida president Bernie Machen, MU athletic director Mike Alden, and Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive address members of the media and Missouri fans at the MU Student Center in Columbia, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, confirming Missouri's acceptance to the Southeastern Conference effective July 1, 2012, with competition to begin in all sports for the 2012-13 academic year.
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University of Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton, University of Florida president Bernie Machen, MU athletic director Mike Alden, and Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive address members of the media and Missouri fans at the MU Student Center in Columbia, Mo., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, confirming Missouri's acceptance to the Southeastern Conference effective July 1, 2012, with competition to begin in all sports for the 2012-13 academic year.
- published: 07 Nov 2011
- views: 1636
- author: Columbia Trib
Southeastern Conference - Wiki Article
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birm... Southeastern Conference - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Image URL: en.wikipedia.org ( Creative Commons ASA 3.0 )
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The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birm... Southeastern Conference - Wiki Article - wikiplays.org Original @ http All Information Derived from Wikipedia using Creative Commons License: en.wikipedia.org Author: Image URL: en.wikipedia.org ( Creative Commons ASA 3.0 )
- published: 08 Nov 2012
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- author: WikiPlays
Capital One Bowl: Georgia-Nebraska
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Georgia and Nebraska square off in a Top 16 matchup between the Big Ten and SEC (January 1st, 1 ET - ABC).
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Georgia and Nebraska square off in a Top 16 matchup between the Big Ten and SEC (January 1st, 1 ET - ABC).
- published: 12 Dec 2012
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- author: ESPN
Outback Bowl: South Carolina-Michigan
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South Carolina and Michigan meet up in a New Year's Day SEC-Big Ten matchup in Tampa Bay for the 2013 Outback Bowl (January 1st, 1 ET - ESPN).
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South Carolina and Michigan meet up in a New Year's Day SEC-Big Ten matchup in Tampa Bay for the 2013 Outback Bowl (January 1st, 1 ET - ESPN).
- published: 12 Dec 2012
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- author: ESPN
SEC Gameday Central - Alabama vs Georgia
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Megan Clementi breaks down the intense matchup between Alabama and Georgia for the SEC crown. Amari Cooper's 45-yard touchdown reception with 3:15 remaining Saturday lifted No. 2 Alabama to its 23rd all-time Southeastern Conference Football Championship with a 32-28 victory against No. 3 Georgia at the Georgia Dome in a game that featured more than its fair share of twists and turns. The contest was played in front of 75624 fans, the fifth-largest crowd in SEC Championship Game history. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
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Megan Clementi breaks down the intense matchup between Alabama and Georgia for the SEC crown. Amari Cooper's 45-yard touchdown reception with 3:15 remaining Saturday lifted No. 2 Alabama to its 23rd all-time Southeastern Conference Football Championship with a 32-28 victory against No. 3 Georgia at the Georgia Dome in a game that featured more than its fair share of twists and turns. The contest was played in front of 75624 fans, the fifth-largest crowd in SEC Championship Game history. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 2710
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
11/10/2012 Texas A&M; vs Alabama Football Highlights
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Texas A&M; has certainly made waves in its first season in the Southeastern Conference, but the Aggies triggered a tsunami on Saturday night by taking down No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 29-24. Own the Full Game of Texas A&M; vs. Alabama in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
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Texas A&M; has certainly made waves in its first season in the Southeastern Conference, but the Aggies triggered a tsunami on Saturday night by taking down No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 29-24. Own the Full Game of Texas A&M; vs. Alabama in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
- published: 11 Nov 2012
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An Inside Look: Building The Texas A&M; Brand
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www.tamu.edu Jason Cook, vice president for marketing and communications, gives an inside look at how Texas A&M; has become one of the hottest collegiate brands in the nation. He shares the reasons for the university's transition to the Southeastern Conference and how athletics has provided a vehicle to introduce millions of people to Texas A&M.;
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www.tamu.edu Jason Cook, vice president for marketing and communications, gives an inside look at how Texas A&M; has become one of the hottest collegiate brands in the nation. He shares the reasons for the university's transition to the Southeastern Conference and how athletics has provided a vehicle to introduce millions of people to Texas A&M.;
- published: 13 Nov 2012
- views: 13243
- author: AggieMedia
Gameday Central - Missouri vs Tennessee
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The Missouri Tigers recorded their second conference win as members of the SEC on Saturday when they ousted Tennessee in four overtimes, 51-48. The victory inside Neyland Stadium marked Mizzou's first road win in the conference, and it was spearheaded by James Franklin's four touchdown passes.
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The Missouri Tigers recorded their second conference win as members of the SEC on Saturday when they ousted Tennessee in four overtimes, 51-48. The victory inside Neyland Stadium marked Mizzou's first road win in the conference, and it was spearheaded by James Franklin's four touchdown passes.
- published: 10 Nov 2012
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- author: SECDigitalNetwork
Gameday Central - Alabama vs Texas A&M;
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Texas A&M; has certainly made waves in its first season in the Southeastern Conference, but the Aggies triggered a tsunami on Saturday night by taking down No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 29-24. Bama and A&M; traded haymakers for much of the afternoon, but a goal line stand from the Aggies defense late in the game ultimately proved to be the difference in the outcome. Own the Full Game of Texas A&M; vs. Alabama in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
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Texas A&M; has certainly made waves in its first season in the Southeastern Conference, but the Aggies triggered a tsunami on Saturday night by taking down No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 29-24. Bama and A&M; traded haymakers for much of the afternoon, but a goal line stand from the Aggies defense late in the game ultimately proved to be the difference in the outcome. Own the Full Game of Texas A&M; vs. Alabama in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
- published: 11 Nov 2012
- views: 11914
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
11/10/2012 Missouri vs Tennessee Football Highlights
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The Missouri Tigers recorded their second conference win as members of the SEC on Saturday when they ousted Tennessee in four overtimes, 51-48.
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The Missouri Tigers recorded their second conference win as members of the SEC on Saturday when they ousted Tennessee in four overtimes, 51-48.
- published: 10 Nov 2012
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- author: SECDigitalNetwork
10/27/2012 Tennessee vs South Carolina Football Highlights
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No. 13 South Carolina lost star running back Marcus Lattimore to a knee injury in the first half, but the Gamecocks were able to notch a 38-35 win over SEC rival Tennessee.
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No. 13 South Carolina lost star running back Marcus Lattimore to a knee injury in the first half, but the Gamecocks were able to notch a 38-35 win over SEC rival Tennessee.
- published: 27 Oct 2012
- views: 3721
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
SEC Top 5 - Johnny Manziel
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As one of this year's Heisman finalists, the SEC Digital Network's Hannah Chalker takes a look at the SEC fan favorite Johnny Football plays from his 2012 season.
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As one of this year's Heisman finalists, the SEC Digital Network's Hannah Chalker takes a look at the SEC fan favorite Johnny Football plays from his 2012 season.
- published: 05 Dec 2012
- views: 5402
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
2012 SEC Football Championship: Welcome to The Dome
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Hannah Chalker gives you a behind the scenes look at the SEC Championship Game
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Hannah Chalker gives you a behind the scenes look at the SEC Championship Game
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 3416
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
12/01/2012 Georgia vs Alabama Football Highlights
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Alabama claims a 32-28 win over Georgia in Atlanta to be crowned 2012 SEC Champions. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
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Alabama claims a 32-28 win over Georgia in Atlanta to be crowned 2012 SEC Champions. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 10924
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
2012 SEC Football Championship: AJ McCarron Interview
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Hannah Chalker interviews Alabama QB AJ McCarron after the Crimson Tide won the 2012 SEC Football Championship. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
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Hannah Chalker interviews Alabama QB AJ McCarron after the Crimson Tide won the 2012 SEC Football Championship. Own this Full Game in Digital, DVD or Blu-ray, only at SECOnDemand.com! Direct Link: goo.gl
- published: 02 Dec 2012
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- author: SECDigitalNetwork
Gameday Central - Ole Miss vs LSU
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No. 7 LSU got all it could handle from Ole Miss on Saturday afternoon, but the Tigers squeaked out a 41-35 win on a Jeremy Hill touchdown plunge with 15 seconds remaining in the game. With the win, LSU (9-2, 5-2 SEC) keeps its Western Division title hopes alive as we head into the final week of the regular season.
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No. 7 LSU got all it could handle from Ole Miss on Saturday afternoon, but the Tigers squeaked out a 41-35 win on a Jeremy Hill touchdown plunge with 15 seconds remaining in the game. With the win, LSU (9-2, 5-2 SEC) keeps its Western Division title hopes alive as we head into the final week of the regular season.
- published: 18 Nov 2012
- views: 1143
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
Alabama vs Georgia week 14 2012 SEC Championship game
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www.goforthe2.com week 14 2012 Alabama vs Georgia SEC Championship Game 2012 week 14 SEC Championship Game Alabama vs Georgia
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www.goforthe2.com week 14 2012 Alabama vs Georgia SEC Championship Game 2012 week 14 SEC Championship Game Alabama vs Georgia
- published: 27 Nov 2012
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SEC Today - Ryan Swope & Damion Square
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Hannah Chalker gives you exclusive access into the Texas A&M; vs Alabama game. Hear from TAMU WR Ryan Swope and Bama's DE Damion Square.
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Hannah Chalker gives you exclusive access into the Texas A&M; vs Alabama game. Hear from TAMU WR Ryan Swope and Bama's DE Damion Square.
- published: 06 Nov 2012
- views: 1083
- author: SECDigitalNetwork
11/10/2012 Georgia vs Auburn Football Highlights
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Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray threw for 208 yards and three touchdowns against Auburn on Saturday night, and the Bulldogs clinched the SEC Eastern Division crown with a 38-0 win at Jordan Hare Stadium.
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Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray threw for 208 yards and three touchdowns against Auburn on Saturday night, and the Bulldogs clinched the SEC Eastern Division crown with a 38-0 win at Jordan Hare Stadium.
- published: 11 Nov 2012
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11/10/2012 Vanderbilt vs Ole Miss Football Highlights
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- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Vanderbilt rallied from a 16-point deficit on the road against Ole Miss and the Commodores are now bowl-eligible for the second consecutive season under coach James Franklin. Vandy (6-4, 4-3 SEC) finished the game on a 21-3 run to pull off the 27-26 win at The Grove.
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Vanderbilt rallied from a 16-point deficit on the road against Ole Miss and the Commodores are now bowl-eligible for the second consecutive season under coach James Franklin. Vandy (6-4, 4-3 SEC) finished the game on a 21-3 run to pull off the 27-26 win at The Grove.
- published: 11 Nov 2012
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16 Dec 2012
Retired Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin yesterday wrapped up a visit to the United States during which he met with officials at the Pentagon, State Department as well as members of Congress warning about underestimating China’s tactical nuclear weapons buildup ... Yesin warns that U.S. and Western arms specialists are dramatically underestimating China’s nuclear arsenal ... Somewhere between the higher and lower estimates is no doubt the truth ... Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
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16 Dec 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage committed suicide as first responders closed in, the governor said Sunday, raising the specter that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre and was stopped short. Lanza blasted his way into the building and used a high-power rifle to kill 20 children and six adults, including the principal who tried to stop him, authorities said ... Among the questions ... H ... The Rev....(size: 8.8Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a handgun were arrested ... That morning before school, he had posted on Twitter and Facebook....(size: 14.0Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
An increasing number of US congressmen have called for a national dialogue about measures to curb gun violence following the shooting last week at a primary school in Connecticut that killed 26 people, including 20 children and six adults. White House officials have said that President Barack Obama would make preventing gun-related violence a priority in his second term in office and stricter laws would be part of the effort. ... ....(size: 19.2Kb)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
16 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Fundamentalism is good for protest, good for revolution, and good for war, but not so good for development.". After a century of being persecuted and driven underground, mainly for their vibrant nationalism and their anti-imperialist and pro-Palestinian views, Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has finally taken center-state ... Such actions will have to be avoided....(size: 6.9Kb)
The Dallas Morning News
19 Dec 2012
Johnny Manziel ran for almost 1,700 yards and 30 touchdowns as a dual-threat quarterback his senior year of high school at Kerrville Tivy. Who would have thought he'd be even more impressive at Texas A&M when pitted against the defenses of the Southeastern Conference?. On Tuesday, Manziel picked up another major award for his spectacular debut season. He was voted The Associated Press Player of the Year ... You don't get to tackle ... 10 ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
my SA
18 Dec 2012
31 game between No. 9 Louisiana State and No ... The game annually matches teams from the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference ... ....(size: 0.6Kb)
The Examiner
18 Dec 2012
Western Kentucky plays in the Sun Belt Conference and are led by first-year head coach Ray Harper ... Western Kentucky got 41 rebounds against the Racers. 16 offensive and 25 defensive ... VCU Rolled the Tide ... The win against the Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference is perhaps the biggest win this year for VCU...the November win against the University of Memphis would be a close second ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
STL Today
18 Dec 2012
New York Giants assistant takes over at Temple ... 31 game between No. 9 LSU and No ... The game matches teams from the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference ... He led the Big Sky Conference with 12.5 sacks and 15 tackles for a loss ... Atterberry led the 2012 Javelinas to third-place in the Division II Lone Star Conference, and was selected as conference co-coach of the year. His 2009 team won the conference title ... Associated Press ....(size: 3.6Kb)
The Miami Herald
18 Dec 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C ... The Southeastern Conference's leader with 13 sacks was back at practice last weekend as the 11th-ranked Gamecocks (10-2) prepare for No ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
The Washington Post
18 Dec 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C ... The Hendricks Award winner has even bigger goals ahead in 2013 ... The Southeastern Conference’s leader with 13 sacks was back at practice last weekend as the 11th-ranked Gamecocks (10-2) prepare for No ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)
my SA
18 Dec 2012
The Louisville native faces a big challenge with the Wildcats, whose offense ranked next to last in the Southeastern Conference this past season at 315 yards per game. ....(size: 0.8Kb)
Kansas City Star
18 Dec 2012
COLUMBIA -- They cheered for Jabari Brown, with some of the 10,613 fans at Mizzou Arena even rising to their feet in anticipation ... With the win, No. 12 Missouri improved to 9-1 and as a whole, could not have looked better as the Tigers prepare to play three challenging non-conference games before the start of the Southeastern Conference slate ... Missouri now turns its sites to the annual Braggin’ Rights Game with No ... Louis ... 5. ....(size: 2.2Kb)
Lexington Herald-Leader
18 Dec 2012
Kentucky drew closer to completing its football staff Tuesday with the announcement that former All-Southeastern Conference defensive tackle Jimmy Brumbaugh will coach the defensive line. Brumbaugh played for Auburn in the 1990s and was a member of LSU's coaching staff during its 2007 national title run ... "Jimmy comes from the heritage of the legendary Pete Jenkins ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
my SA
18 Dec 2012
AUSTIN — Just by looking at her Sunday, Meighan Simmons' Tennessee teammates knew she was nervous. She didn't have to tell them. In fact, she always has been adept at conveying messages without talking. As a 6-year-old, Simmons traveled the country with a children's ministry called Perfect Praise ... A 5-foot-9 junior for the No ... 3 Baylor tonight, Simmons ranks second in the Southeastern Conference in scoring at 17.9 points per game ... Twitter....(size: 2.7Kb)
Ohio
18 Dec 2012
But director of athletics Joel Nielsen conceded in a blog post earlier this month on kentstatesports.com that even with the increase, Hazell’s pay ranked last among coaches in the 13-team Mid-American Conference in 2012 ... At Arkansas, he earned $475,000 this season, according to ArkansasSports360.com, in the multimillion dollar land of the Southeastern Conference....(size: 4.7Kb)
Rocky Mount Telegram
18 Dec 2012
It has been a career full of recognition, elite camps and top-level awards for Tarboro defensive end Tyquan Lewis. One more couldn’t hurt ... It is the second straight year the Vikings have landed a player on the all-state team ... Gurley is starring at Georgia, where he rushed for 1,260 yards as a freshman and was named as part of the all-Southeastern Conference first team ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
The Business Review
18 Dec 2012
Nashville Business Journal by Jamie McGee, Staff Writer. Date. Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 1.49pm CST ... Vanderbilt, with an 8-4 season and a bowl game ahead, is selling the most; Titans merchandise, with a 5-9 season, just barely ranks above sales for University of Tennessee, whose lackluster season yielded one Southeastern Conference victory; and the Predators, with a nonexistent season, is way down from last year ... Industries.. , ... ... Sale ... ....(size: 8.2Kb)
| Southeastern Conference (SEC) |
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| Established | 1932 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I FBS |
| Members | 12 (14 on July 1, 2012) |
| Sports fielded | 20[1] (men's: 9; women's: 11) |
| Region | Southern United States |
| Headquarters | Birmingham, Alabama |
| Commissioner | Michael Slive (since 2002) |
| Website | secsports.com |
| Locations | |
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in athletic competitions; for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A. The conference is one of the most successful financially, consistently leading most conferences in revenue distribution to its members, including an SEC record $220.0 million for the 2010–2011 fiscal year.[2]
The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game (and award a subsequent title) for college football, and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The current SEC commissioner is Michael Slive.[3]
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History[link]
Founding and former members[link]
The SEC was established on December 8 and 9, 1932, when the thirteen members of the Southern Conference located west and south of the Appalachian Mountains left to form their own conference. Ten of the thirteen founding members have remained in the conference since its inception: the University of Alabama, Auburn University, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University ("LSU"), the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss"), Mississippi State University, the University of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt University.
The other charter members were:
- The University of the South ("Sewanee") left the SEC on December 13, 1940, and later de-emphasized varsity athletics.[4] It is currently a member of the Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, but will leave that conference in July 2012, along with six other SCAC members, to form a new Division III conference to be known as the Southern Athletic Association.
- Georgia Institute of Technology ("Georgia Tech") left the SEC in 1964. In 1975, it became a founding member of the Metro Conference, one of the predecessors to today's Conference USA. Georgia Tech competed in the Metro Conference in all sports except football, in which it was independent. In 1978, Georgia Tech joined another Southern Conference offshoot, the Atlantic Coast Conference, for all sports, where it has remained.
- Tulane University left the SEC in 1966. Along with Georgia Tech, it was a charter member of the Metro Conference. Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro Conference until it merged with the Great Midwest Conference and became the new Conference USA in 1995. Tulane remained an independent in football until C-USA began football competition in 1996.
1991 expansion[link]
Further information: Atlantic Coast Conference and Southwest Conference
In 1991, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of:
- University of Arkansas (see Arkansas Razorbacks for team history before SEC); and
- University of South Carolina (see South Carolina Gamecocks for team history before SEC).
The two new teams joined for the 1991–1992 basketball season. At the same time, the SEC split into two divisions—a Western Division comprising most of the schools in the Central Time Zone, and an Eastern Division comprising the schools in the Eastern Time Zone plus Vanderbilt (which is located in the Central Time Zone, but is in the Eastern Division to preserve its rivalry with Tennessee, while Alabama and Auburn are in the same division to preserve theirs despite Auburn being further east than Vanderbilt). This divisional format remains in place today for football and baseball; the divisions have been eliminated for basketball.
Also in 1992, the SEC was the first conference to receive permission from the NCAA to sponsor an annual football championship game, featuring the winners of the conference's Eastern and Western divisions.[5] The 1992 and 1993 SEC Championships were held at Birmingham's Legion Field, and have since been held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.[5]
2012 expansion[link]
See also: 2010–12 NCAA conference realignment
On September 25, 2011, the SEC Presidents and Chancellors, acting unanimously, announced that Texas A&M University will join the SEC effective July 1, 2012, with Texas A&M to begin competition in nineteen of the twenty sports sponsored by the SEC during the 2012–13 academic year.[6] On November 6, 2011 the SEC commissioner announced that the University of Missouri will also be joining the SEC on July 1, 2012.[7] For football, Texas A&M will compete in the Western Division, and Missouri in the Eastern Division.[8][9][10][11]
Membership timeline[link]
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Television and radio contracts[link]
The SEC televises football games across various networks during the fall. SEC coverage is primarily provided by CBS and the ESPN family of networks, which includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ABC. Fox Sports Net also has rights to air seven live football games over the course of the season.[12]
ESPN reported paying $2.25 billion for broadcast rights of SEC football games beginning in the 2009 season and running through the fiscal year 2025.[13]
Games scheduled for airing are generally picked two weeks before they occur, with a few matches that are selected by CBS and ESPN prior to the season.
CBS has the first pick for a game and selects the highest-profile game to broadcast to a national, over-the-air audience. The CBS game is usually broadcast at 3:30 eastern time. Some weekends, CBS will air a doubleheader of SEC games.[14] CBS also has the rights for the SEC Championship Game.
ESPN will air several SEC games each week among its various channels, with Saturday time slots generally at 12:00 ET, 7:00 ET, and 7:45 ET, and some SEC games will be shown on Thursday nights. In previous years, Raycom Sports syndicated regional coverage for an SEC game of the week at 12:30 ET, but the new contract replaced it with a new ESPN-produced syndication package, the SEC Network — whose football games kickoff at 12:21 ET.[15]
The currently scheduled Fox Sports Net games are set for 7:00 ET.[16]
For games not selected by any broadcast provider, certain schools may offer regional pay-per-view.
As of 2008, all SEC schools are affiliated with XM Radio, offering their radio broadcasts to an audience on XM. According to SiriusXM, the SEC will not be included as part of the "Best of XM" package deal for Sirius customers.
2008 television contract[link]
During the 2007–2008 fiscal year review meeting, there was discussion among SEC leadership about the possibility of starting a TV network dedicated to its conference, much in the same way the Mountain West Conference and Big Ten Conference have done with the mtn. and Big Ten Networks, respectively. A decision was made to postpone the decision until at least the following year.[17]
In August 2008, the SEC announced an unprecedented 15-year television contract with CBS worth an estimated $55 million a year. This continues the relationship the SEC already has with CBS, which puts the SEC in the unique position as the only conference to have its own exclusive national television network of the four major over-the-air broadcast networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox) to display the SEC's events.[5]
In the same month, the league also announced another landmark television contract with ESPN worth $2.25 billion or $150 million a year for the life of the contract, which is for fifteen years. It is the longest and wealthiest contract among all television deals among the major conferences. With these contracts, the SEC has, outside the Big Ten, the richest television deals in the country and will make the SEC the most nationally televised and visible conference in the country with the coverage that is provided by these contracts.[18][19]
Commissioners[link]
File:SEC Logo 75.png
This 75th anniversary logo was used during the 2007–2008 athletic season.
The office of Commissioner was created in 1940.[20]
| Years | Commissioners |
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| 1940–1946 | Martin S. Conner |
| 1947–1948 | N.W. Dougherty (acting) |
| 1948–1966 | Bernie Moore |
| 1966–1972 | A. M. "Tonto" Coleman |
| 1972–1986 | H. Boyd McWhorter |
| 1986–1989 | Harvey W. Schiller |
| 1988–89 | Mark Womack (acting / two occasions) |
| 1990–2002 | Roy F. Kramer |
| 2002–present | Michael Slive |
Membership[link]
Current members[link]
The SEC currently has twelve member institutions in nine Southeastern states.[21] The geographic domain of the conference stretches from Arkansas to South Carolina (west to east) and from Kentucky to Florida (north to south). New members to be admitted in 2012 will extend this reach: northward to Missouri and westward to Texas.
The conference is divided into two geographic divisions: the Eastern Division and the Western Division. These groupings are most notably used in football and baseball. Starting with the 2011–12 season, the SEC scrapped its divisional alignment in men's basketball, following a vote by SEC head coaches on June 1, 2011 at the conference's annual meeting.[22] This change makes the SEC more consistent with other conferences, since none of the other five "major conferences" use divisions in basketball even if they are used in football, baseball, etc. The conference also does not use divisions in women's basketball. The twelve current members of the Southeastern Conference are:
- * Enrollment figures include both undergraduate and graduate students.
Future members[link]
| Institution | Location (Population) |
Founded | Type | Enrollment | Year Joined | Nickname | Mascot |
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| Joining July 1, 2012 | |||||||
| Texas A&M University | College Station, Texas (94,347) |
1876 | Public | 52,585 | 2012 | Aggies | Reveille (live collie) |
| University of Missouri | Columbia, Missouri (108,500) |
1839 | Public | 33,805 | 2012 | Tigers | Truman the Tiger |
Sports[link]
File:Logo of the SEC.png
SEC Logo, 1992 to 2007
The Southeastern Conference sponsors championships in nine men's and ten women's sports.
- Baseball
- Basketball – Men's
- Basketball – Women's
- Cross-Country – Men's (except South Carolina)
- Cross-Country – Women's
- Football
- Golf – Men's
- Golf – Women's
- Gymnastics (Women's) (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU only; Missouri will join league competition in 2012–13)
- Indoor Track & Field – Men's
- Indoor Track & Field – Women's
- Outdoor Track & Field – Men's (except Vanderbilt)
- Outdoor Track & Field – Women's
- Soccer (Women's)
- Softball (Women's) (except Vanderbilt)
- Swimming and Diving – Men's (except Arkansas, MSU, Ole Miss, and Vanderbilt)
- Swimming and Diving – Women's (except MSU and Ole Miss)
- Tennis – Men's
- Tennis – Women's
- Volleyball (Women's) (except Vanderbilt) – Note: The SEC voted to suspend the volleyball tournament for a period of three years beginning with the 2006 season.[24]
Under SEC conference rules reflecting the large number of (male) scholarship participants in football and attempting to address gender equity concerns (see also Title IX), each member institution is required to provide two more women's varsity sports than men's. The equivalent rule was recently adopted by the NCAA for all of Division I.[25]
While South Carolina and Kentucky field men's soccer teams, the conference does not sponsor the sport; both schools in 2005 joined Conference USA for the sport.[26] Conference USA also hosts the University of Alabama and the University of Tennessee as single sports members for women's rowing, which the SEC does not sponsor. Florida and Vanderbilt both have women's lacrosse teams, and those teams compete in the single-sport American Lacrosse Conference.
When Missouri joins the SEC, it will be the only school to sponsor wrestling. No SEC school has sponsored the sport since LSU discontinued its program in 1985 in order to come into compliance with Title IX.
Sports facilities[link]
- ^ Two or three games played each year at Little Rock, one or two non-conference game(s) and one SEC game (the LSU game if Arkansas is hosting that game).
Current SEC champions[link]
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Source: 2011–12 Southeastern Conference Media Guide[31]
Football[link]
For the upcoming season, see 2012 Southeastern Conference football season
Before expansion, each SEC school played six conference games. Five of these games were against permanent opponents, developing some traditional rivalries between schools, and the sixth game rotated around the other four members of the conference.
From 1992 through 2001, each team had two permanent inter-divisional opponents, allowing many traditional rivalries from the pre-expansion era (such as Florida vs. Auburn, Kentucky vs. LSU and Vanderbilt vs. Alabama) to continue. However, complaints from some league athletic directors about imbalance in the schedule (for instance, Auburn's two permanent opponents from the East were Florida and Georgia – two of the SEC's stronger football programs at the time – while Mississippi State played Kentucky and South Carolina every year) led to the SEC reducing the permanent opponents to only one per team.
Under the current format, each school plays a total of eight conference games, consisting of the other five teams in its division, two schools from the other division on a rotating basis, and one school from the other division that it plays each year. All permanent inter-divisional games, with the exception of Arkansas vs. South Carolina, were played annually before SEC expansion in 1992.[32]
The following table shows the permanent inter-divisional opponent for each school listed by total number of games played (records through the completion of the 2011 season with Western Division wins listed first):[33]
| Western Division | Eastern Division | Series Record |
|---|---|---|
| Auburn | Georgia | 54–53–8[34] |
| Alabama | Tennessee | 48–38–8[35] |
| Ole Miss | Vanderbilt | 47–37–2[36] |
| LSU | Florida | 25–30–3[37] |
| Mississippi State | Kentucky | 19–20[38] |
| Arkansas | South Carolina | 13–7[39] |
| Overall Inter-Divisional Record | 206–185–21[40] | |
The following table shows the future permanent inter-divisional opponent for each school listed by total number of games played (records through the completion of the 2011 season with Western Division wins listed first):[33]
| Western Division | Eastern Division | Series Record |
|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M | Missouri | 7–5[41] |
Other league athletic directors have advocated discarding the current format and adopting the one used by the Big 12 Conference through 2010, where teams play three teams from the opposite division on a home-and-home basis for two seasons, and then switch and play the other three teams from the opposite side for a two-year home-and-home. However, the potential loss of such heated (and profitable, as the games are often shown on national TV) long-standing rivalries as Auburn-Georgia, Alabama-Tennessee, and LSU-Florida have scuttled such plans on the drawing board. The loss of the annual rivalry between Nebraska and Oklahoma had led some Big 12 athletic directors to make a push to adopt the SEC format for the Big 12 prior to the loss of Nebraska and Colorado following the 2010 season. The Atlantic Coast Conference followed the SEC's lead and went one step further, adopting the permanent rival format for both football and basketball (in the latter sport each school had two designated rivals until expansion to 14 schools rendered that arrangement impractical). The Big Ten Conference, which added Nebraska in 2011, is also following the SEC's lead in its scheduling format.
All-time school records[link]
Through the 2011 regular season, not including the bowls that follow.
| # | SEC | Records | Win % | SEC Championships | Claimed National Championships |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | 813–320–43 | 70.96 | 22 | 14 |
| 2 | Tennessee | 794–347–54 | 68.70 | 13 | 6 |
| 3 | LSU | 734–389–47 | 64.74 | 11 | 3 |
| 4 | Georgia | 748–399–54 | 64.53 | 12 | 2 |
| 5 | Auburn | 718–405–47 | 63.34 | 7 | 2 |
| 6 | Florida | 669–385–40 | 62.98 | 8 | 3 |
| 7 | Arkansas | 678–456–40 | 59.15 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Mississippi | 621–486–35 | 55.91 | 6 | 3 |
| 9 | South Carolina | 554–542–44 | 50.53 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Kentucky | 578–572–44 | 50.25 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | Vanderbilt | 565–573–50 | 49.66 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Mississippi State | 506–542–39 | 48.26 | 1 | 0 |
| Would be # | Future Members | Records | Win % | Claimed National Championships |
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| 7 | Texas A&M | 675–444–48 | 59.9 | 1 |
| 10 | Missouri | 624–517–53 | 54.5 | 0 |
Championship Game[link]
Main article: SEC Championship Game
The SEC Championship Game pits the SEC Western Division representative against the Eastern Division representative in a game held after the regular season has been completed. As of 2010, nine of the twelve SEC members have played in the Championship. Ole Miss is the only team from the SEC West to have not played in the SEC Championship Game, and Vanderbilt and Kentucky have failed to play in the game from the SEC East.
The first two SEC Championship football games were held at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Since 1994, the game has been played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The team designated as the "home" team alternates between division champions; the designation goes to the Eastern champion in even-numbered years and the Western champion in odd-numbered years. As of 2010, the Eastern division of the SEC leads the Western division in overall wins in the championship game 11 to 9.
Bowl games[link]
The post-season bowl game tie-ins for the SEC for the 2010 season are:[43]
| Pick | Name | Location | Opposing Conference | Opposing Pick |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar Bowl | New Orleans, Louisiana | BCS | – |
| 2 | Capital One Bowl | Orlando, Florida | Big Ten | 2 |
| 3/4 | Outback Bowl | Tampa, Florida | Big Ten | 3 |
| 3/4 | Cotton Bowl Classic | Arlington, Texas | Big 12 | 2 |
| 5 | Chick-fil-A Bowl | Atlanta, Georgia | ACC | 2 |
| 6 | Gator Bowl | Jacksonville, Florida | Big Ten | 4/5 |
| 7/8 | Liberty Bowl | Memphis, Tennessee | C-USA | 1 |
| 7/8 | Music City Bowl | Nashville, Tennessee | ACC | 6 |
| 9 | BBVA Compass Bowl | Birmingham, Alabama | Big East | 5 |
Bowl selection procedures[link]
If the SEC champion is selected to participate in the BCS National Championship Game, the Sugar Bowl is not required to pick the SEC runner-up but may select any eligible BCS team. However, since the BCS title game was moved to a standalone basis in 2007, the Sugar Bowl has selected an SEC team, and since 2008 has chosen the SEC runner-up (the 2007 Sugar Bowl featured LSU, who was not the SEC runner-up but was an eligible BCS team). However, since 2006, the Sugar Bowl has selected either a division runner-up (2006 LSU, 2007 Georgia, and 2010 Arkansas) or conference runner-up (2008 Alabama, 2009 Florida), which has been the second highest ranked SEC team in the BCS standings.
Under SEC guidelines, unless the Sugar Bowl selects the SEC runner-up, the Capital One Bowl must then pick the SEC runner-up if that team has at least two more total wins than the next team in the selection order. The SEC runner-up has not played in the Capital One Bowl since Arkansas following the 2006 season.
After those selections, the Outback Bowl has the first choice of the remaining teams in the SEC East, and the Cotton Bowl Classic has the first choice of those left in the SEC West.
The Chick-fil-A Bowl and Gator Bowl pick afterwards.
The Liberty Bowl and Music City Bowl work together, along with the SEC office, to determine the seventh and eighth picks.
The BBVA Compass Bowl picks last. In the case that the SEC does not have nine bowl-eligible teams, a team from the Sun Belt will be selected instead.
The SEC is presently second in BCS Bowl appearances, with twenty-one appearances, and first in all-time wins and winning percentage, with fifteen wins and a .714 winning percentage. The BCS Bowls include the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, and the BCS National Championship Game.
Since the advent of the BCS National Championship Game format, the SEC is 8–1 in those games. The one SEC loss, however, was at the hands of another SEC team when the SEC sent an unprecedented two teams to the 2012 National Championship game. The SEC was 2–0 in the games where the BCS National Championship Game was played as one of the traditional New Year's Day bowls, and since 2007 (when the game was moved to a separate contest one week later) an SEC team has participated in all six games and has won all six. Interestingly, the SEC team was ranked No. 1 only three times going into the game (the first contest featuring Tennessee in 1998, Alabama in 2009 and the most recent featuring Auburn in 2010); the other four times the SEC team (LSU twice and Florida twice) was ranked No. 2.
Rivalries[link]
The SEC members have long histories. Some of the football rivalries involving SEC teams include:
| Teams | Rivalry Name | Trophy | Meetings[44] | Record[44] | Series leader | Current Streak | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Auburn | Iron Bowl | James E. Foy, V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy | 76[45] | 41–34–1[45] | Alabama | Alabama Won 1[45] |
| LSU | Alabama-LSU rivalry/The Saban Bowl | — | 76[46] | 46–25–5[46] | Alabama | Alabama Won 1[46] | |
| Tennessee | Third Saturday in October | — | 93[35] | 48–38–7[35] | Alabama | Alabama Won 5[35] | |
| Mississippi State | Alabama-Mississippi State Rivalry | — | 95[47] | 76–17–3[47] | Alabama | Alabama Won 4[47] | |
| Arkansas | LSU | The Battle for the Golden Boot | The Golden Boot[4] | 56[48] | 20–34–2[48] | LSU | LSU Won 1[48] |
| Texas[5]† | The Big Shootout | — | 77[49] | 21–56[49] | Texas | Texas Won 2[49] | |
| Texas A&M | The Southwest Classic[6] | — | 67[50] | 41–24–3[50] | Arkansas | Arkansas Won 3[50] | |
| Auburn | Florida | Auburn–Florida football rivalry | — | 82[51] | 42–38–2[51] | Auburn | Auburn Won 3[51] |
| Georgia | The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry | — | 114[34] | 54–53–8[34] | Auburn | Georgia Won 1[34] | |
| LSU | The Tiger Bowl[7] | — | 43[52] | 19–23–1[52] | LSU | LSU Won 1[52] | |
| Florida | Florida State † | Florida–Florida State rivalry | The Governor's Cup | 56[53] | 33–21–2[53] | Florida | Florida State Won 2[53] |
| Miami † | Florida–Miami football rivalry | Seminole War Canoe Trophy[8] | 54[54] | 26–28[54] | Miami | Florida Won 1[54] | |
| Georgia | Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic[9] | Okefenokee Oar | 89[55] | 40–47–2[55] | Georgia | Georgia won 1[55] | |
| Tennessee | Florida–Tennessee rivalry | — | 40[56] | 22–19[56] | Florida | Florida Won 7[56] | |
| Georgia | Auburn | The Deep South's Oldest Rivalry | — | 114[34] | 54–53–8[34] | Auburn | Georgia Won 1[34] |
| Florida | Georgia vs. Florida Football Classic[10] | Okefenokee Oar | 89[55] | 47–40–2[55] | Georgia | Georgia won 1[55] | |
| Georgia Tech † | Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate | The Governor's Cup | 104[57] | 60–39–5[57] | Georgia | Georgia Won 2[57] | |
| Kentucky | Indiana † | Kentucky–Indiana rivalry | —[11] | 36[58] | 17–18–1[58] | Indiana | Indiana Won 1[58] |
| Louisville † | Battle for the Governor's Cup | The Governor's Cup | 22[59] | 14–10[59] | Kentucky | Louisville Won 1[59] | |
| Tulane † | The Battle for the Rag | The Tiger Rag[12] | 97[60] | 66–22–7[60] | LSU | LSU Won 17[60] | |
| Ole Miss | The Magnolia Bowl | The Magnolia Bowl Trophy | 96[61] | 57–39–4[61] | LSU | LSU Won 2[61] | |
| Florida | Florida–LSU rivalry | — | 57[62] | 25–30–3[62] | Florida[62] | LSU Won 2[62] | |
| Ole Miss | The Battle for the Golden Egg (The Egg Bowl) | The Golden Egg Trophy | 108[63] | 43–60–6[63] | Ole Miss | Mississippi State Won 3[63] | |
| Alabama | Alabama-Mississippi State Rivalry | — | 95[47] | 45–25–5[47] | Alabama | Alabama Won 4[47] | |
| LSU | The Magnolia Bowl | The Magnolia Bowl Trophy | 96[61] | 39–57–4[61] | LSU | LSU Won 2[61] | |
| Mississippi State | The Battle for the Golden Egg (The Egg Bowl) | The Golden Egg Trophy | 108[63] | 60–42–6[63] | Ole Miss | Mississippi State Won 3[63] | |
| South Carolina | Clemson† | The Palmetto Bowl | The Hardee's Trophy | 108[64] | 40–65–4[64] | Clemson | South Carolina Won 3[64] |
| Georgia | The Border Bash | — | 62[65] | 16–46–2[65] | Georgia | South Carolina Won 2[65] | |
| Tennessee | The Halloween Game[13] | — | 27[66] | 5–22–2[66] | Tennessee | South Carolina Won 2[66] | |
| Tennessee | Kentucky | Battle for the Barrel | — | 105[67] | 73–24–9[67] | Tennessee | Kentucky won 1[67] |
| Vanderbilt | Tennessee | Tennessee–Vanderbilt rivalry | — | 103[68] | 27–73–5[68] | Tennessee | Tennessee Won 5[68] |
† Denotes outside of conference
Player awards[link]
Each year, the conference selects various individual awards. In 1994, the conference began honoring former players from each school annually with the SEC Football Legends program.
50th anniversary All-Time SEC Team[link]
In 1982, the SEC Skywriters, a group of media covering the Southeastern Conference, selected members of their All-Time SEC Team for the first 50 years (1933–82) of the SEC.
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50th anniversary logo that was used in the 1982–83 athletic season.
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Men's basketball[link]
For the most recently completed season, see 2011–12 SEC men's basketball season.
SEC teams play a 16-game conference schedule. Although the divisions have been eliminated beginning with the 2011–12 season, that season's schedule will continue to be set according to the divisional alignments, with each team facing each team from its own division twice and each team from the opposite division once. As part of the proposal by SEC head coaches that led to the scrapping of the divisional structure, a task force of four coaches and four athletic directors was set to discuss future conference scheduling. At that time, options included a revamped 16-game schedule, an 18-game schedule, or a full double round-robin of 22 conference games.[22] However, this was before Texas A&M and Missouri were accepted as new members, creating what will eventually be a 14-team conference.
Before expansion, teams played a double round-robin, leading to an exhausting 18-game conference schedule. Not surprisingly, no team ever ran the table when the conference schedule featured 18 games; three teams went 17–1 (Kentucky in 1970 and 1986, LSU in 1981). Since the league slate was trimmed to 16 games, Kentucky has gone undefeated in SEC play in 1996, 2003 and 2012.
Basketball tournament[link]
Main article: SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Men's Basketball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Southeastern Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. Starting with the 2012 tournament, the top four seeds in the single league table will receive first-round byes.[22] The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The tournament is most often held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, though sometimes takes place at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee or the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida.
Prior to moving to the Georgia Dome, the tournament was most often contested at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, home of the SEC's headquarters and centrally located prior to the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina. Other sites to host include on-campus arenas at LSU, Tennessee and Vanderbilt; Rupp Arena in Lexington; and the Orlando Arena.
NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations[link]
† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.
Awards[link]
The SEC Men's Basketball Player of the Year is awarded to the player who has proven himself, throughout the season, to be the most exceptional talent in the Southeastern Conference. Various other awards, such as the best tournament player in the SEC Tournament and all conference honors are given out throughout the year. Top honors for any player
Baseball[link]
See also: SEC Baseball Tournament
Since 1990, the SEC has become the most successful conference on the college baseball diamond. That year, Georgia captured the conference's first national championship at the College World Series. Following that, LSU won 6 of the next 19 titles, including 5 of 10 between 1991 and 2000 and its sixth title in 2009. This was followed by South Carolina winning back to back titles in 2010 and 2011. During that same span, 5 teams have also been runner ups at the CWS. In 1997 and 2011 both of the two final teams in the CWS have been from the SEC.
SEC teams have also become leaders in total and average attendance over the years. In 2010 five of the top six drawing programs hailed from the SEC. Six more teams placed in the top 35 nationally.
The NCAA automatic berth is given to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, which was first started in 1977. It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. Since 1998, the tournament has been held at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama and contested under the format used at the College World Series from 1988 through 2002, with two four-team brackets leading to a single championship game. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
SEC presidents and athletic directors voted to expand the SEC Tournament to 10 teams starting in 2012. The division winners will receive a bye on the first day of competition, and the tournament will become single-elimination after the field is pared to four teams.
In addition to the winner of the SEC Baseball Tournament, the Southeastern Conference usually gets several at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. Many teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament despite failing to qualify for the SEC Tournament. One of those, Mississippi State, reached the College World Series in 2007.
College World Series champions, runners-up and scores[link]
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score(s) | Venue | |
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| 1951 | Oklahoma | Tennessee | 3–2 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1975 | Texas (3) | South Carolina | 2–1 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1977 | Arizona State (4) | South Carolina | 2–1 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1979 | Cal State Fullerton | Arkansas | 2–1 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1983 | Texas (4) | Alabama | 4–3 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1990 | Georgia | Oklahoma State | 2–1 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1991 | LSU | Wichita State | 6–3 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1993 | LSU (2) | Wichita State | 8–0 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1996 | LSU (3) | Miami (FL) | 9–8 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 1997 | LSU (4) | Alabama | 13–6 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2000 | LSU (5) | Stanford | 6–5 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2002 | Texas (5) | South Carolina | 12–6 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2005 | Texas (6) | Florida | 4–2, 6–2 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2008 | Fresno State | Georgia | 6–7, 19–10, 6–1 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2009 | LSU (6) | Texas | 7–6, 1–5, 11–4 | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2010 | South Carolina | UCLA | 7–1, 2–1 (11) | Rosenblatt Stadium | Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2011 | South Carolina (2) | Florida | 2–1 (11), 5–2 | TD Ameritrade Park Omaha | Omaha, Nebraska |
Rivalries[link]
Several baseball rivalries have developed in the SEC:
- Historically these schools are arch-rivals, but following Tulane's decades long deemphasis of sports, including its exit from the SEC in 1966, this is the only sport in which the two schools are more evenly matched. On several occasions matchups between the two have drawn national record-setting attendances. Tulane reached its first College World Series in 2001 by defeating LSU in three games in the super regional at Zephyr Field.
- Before the arrival of Skip Bertman as LSU's baseball coach in 1984, Mississippi State had long dominated the conference in baseball, with most of that success coming under legendary coach Ron Polk (who returned to coach the Bulldogs in 2002 after retiring following the 1997 season), who coached future MLB stars such as Rafael Palmeiro, Will Clark and Jeff Brantley. But when Bertman arrived in Baton Rouge, LSU's long-dormant program took off, winning 11 SEC championships and five College World Series championships in 18 seasons from 1984 through 2001.
- This instate rivalry has long been an intense local affair, with the Gamecocks and Tigers meeting each regular season. It has intensified over recent years and gained national prominence as both teams are often ranked in the top 10 nationally. The two highlights of the rivalry have been the 2002 and 2010 meetings in the final four of the College World Series. Each time, South Carolina emerged from the losers bracket to beat Clemson twice and advance to the National Championship match-up, winning the title in 2010.
- To say that the two teams are familiar with each other would be an understatement as the Gamecocks and Tar Heels have met in the NCAA tournament four times between 2002 and 2007. The 2002 NCAA Regional, 2003 NCAA Super Regional and 2004 NCAA Regional featured both schools against each other. South Carolina took two of three games over the Tar Heels to advance in the postseason in 2002, won both games in 2003 to reach the College World Series and won a pair of games in 2004 to go on to another Super Regional. In 2007, the Tar Heels won the Super Regional two games to one to advance to the College World Series. South Carolina baseball coach Ray Tanner has an even longer history with the Tar Heels, having coached ACC rival North Carolina State for nine seasons (1988–96) before leaving for Columbia.
Women's basketball[link]
The SEC has historically been the most dominant conference in women's basketball.[69] Since the 2009–10 season, teams have played a 16-game conference schedule with a single league table; prior to that time the conference schedule was 14 games, again in a single table.[70] Like SEC men's basketball, women's basketball uses the divisional alignment for scheduling purposes; however, the women's scheduling format is significantly different from the men's. Each team plays home-and-home games against five schools—one permanent opponent, two teams from the same division, and two teams from the opposite division; the non-permanent home-and-home opponents rotate every two years.[71] The remaining games are single games against the six other schools in the conference, with three at home and three away.
The recent history of SEC women's basketball is dominated by Tennessee, who have won regular season and/or conference championships in 20 of the last 22 seasons, as well as 8 national championships since 1987. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship has been held, SEC schools have reached the Final Four 32 times, more than twice as often as any other conference.[72]
Basketball tournament[link]
Main article: SEC Women's Basketball Tournament
The SEC Women's Basketball Tournament is currently held a week before the men's basketball tournament. Like the men's version, it is a single-elimination tournament involving all 12 teams, with seeding based on regular season records. The top four teams in the conference standings receive first-round byes, and the winner earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
The tournament, inaugurated in 1980, was originally held on campus sites; the first tournament to take place at a neutral site was in 1987. The two most frequent sites for the tournament have been McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee (seven times) and the Gray Civic Center in Albany, Georgia (six times); however, the tournament was last played in Albany in 1992 and Chattanooga in 2000. Because demand for women's tournament tickets is generally lower than for the men's tournament, it is typically played in a smaller venue than the men's tournament in the same season. The most frequent venues in recent years have been Bridgestone Arena in Nashville and Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, which have respectively hosted the event five and three times since 2000.
NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations[link]
† denotes overtime games. Multiple †'s indicate more than one overtime.
Rivalries[link]
See also: Tennessee-UConn rivalry
- The Lady Vols have historically been the nation's dominant program in that sport. Starting in the mid-1990s, UConn has emerged as Tennessee's main rival for national prominence. The Huskies won four national titles between 2000 and 2004; in three of those years, their victim in the NCAA final was Tennessee. Connecticut also defeated Tennessee in the 1995 Championship game, the Huskies' first-ever title.
Other sports[link]
Besides football, basketball, and baseball, there are a number of other sports in which the Southeastern Conference actively competes.
Rivalries[link]
- These two storied programs have often butted heads for not only SEC titles, but NCAA titles, as well. Georgia has won ten national championships to Alabama's six. For decades the rivalry was dominated by the two long standing coaches of the two schools, Suzanne Yoculan of Georgia and Sarah Patterson of Alabama. Yoculan has since retired bringing their personal rivalry to an end.
- These two nationally acclaimed softball programs have proven to be the elite of the SEC and the nation. While consistently being ranked in the nation's Top Ten, both teams find their way to the SEC Tournament Finals and often clash once more in the Women's College Softball World Series.
- One of the youngest rivalries featuring an SEC team, the Tigers and Texas Longhorns are the two most successful swimming and diving programs in the country. The two have combined for 17 NCAA National Titles since 1981 (9 for Texas, 8 for Auburn) and between 1999 and 2007 won every national title awarded. The two regularly face off in a meet during the regular season, Auburn's men own an 12–9 record over the Longhorns. The women just recently began an annual series, with the Tigers winning the series so far 3–1. Texas was the only team to beat the Auburn men between 2001 and 2007.[73]
Schools ranked by endowment[link]
As of March 19, 2012[74]
National team championships[link]
Main article: List of SEC national champions
Since the SEC's founding in December 1932, the varsity athletic teams of its current twelve members and two future members have won over 200 national team sports championships.
The following is the list of the national team championships claimed by current and future SEC member schools, including those tournament championships currently or formerly sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).[75][76] The NCAA has never sponsored a tournament championship for major college football, the championship game for which is currently sponsored and operated by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Prior to 1992, championships for major college football were determined by a "consensus" of major polling services, including the Associated Press and United Press International college football polls. Recognized women's championships from 1972 to 1982 were administered by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), not the NCAA. There was a one-year overlap period during the 1981–82 school year, when both the AIAW and the NCAA operated women's championship tournaments; since 1982, only the NCAA has sponsored women's championship tournaments. National equestrian tournament championships are currently sponsored by Varsity Equestrian, not the NCAA. Those national championships dating from before 1933 predate the founding of the SEC in December 1932; championships won by Arkansas and South Carolina before the 1992–93 school year predate their membership in the SEC; championships won by Misssouri and Texas A&M before the 2012–13 school year predate their membership in the SEC.
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Football (37): Baseball (10): Men's Basketball (12): Women's Basketball (9): Women's Bowling (1): Boxing (1): Men's Cross Country (12): Women's Cross Country (1): |
Women's Equestrian (10): Men's Golf (11): Women's Golf (4): Women's Gymnastics (17): Rifle (1): Women's Soccer (1): Softball (3): Men's Swimming (11): Women's Swimming (12): Men's Tennis (6): Women's Tennis (8): |
1996 – Florida Men's Indoor Track (26): Women's Indoor Track (14): Men's Outdoor Track (20): Women's Outdoor Track (20): |
* A championship marked by an asterisk (*) indicates that the institution was not a member of the SEC at the time of the championship.
National team titles claimed by SEC institutions[link]
The current twelve and two future members of the Southeastern Conference claim over 200 national team championships in sports currently or formerly sponsored by conference members. The following totals include national team championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to the present, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982, and, in football, the Bowl Alliance, Bowl Coalition and Bowl Championship Series since 1992, as well as consensus national championships determined by the major football polls prior to 1992.
School – Number
- LSU – 46
- Arkansas – 42
- Georgia – 33
- Florida – 28
- Tennessee – 23
- Alabama – 21
- Auburn – 18
- Texas A&M – 13
- Kentucky – 11
- South Carolina – 5
- Ole Miss – 3
- Missouri – 2
- Vanderbilt – 1
- Mississippi State – 0
NCAA and AIAW national tournament team titles won by SEC institutions[link]
The following totals include national team tournament championships sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1906 to the present and the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 to 1982. The NCAA did not sponsor tournament championships in women's sports before the 1981–1982 academic year, and the NCAA has never sponsored a national championship playoff or tournament in major college football. To date, the twelve current members of the SEC have won 192 NCAA and four AIAW championships,[77] including:
School – Number
- LSU – 42
- Arkansas – 41
- Georgia – 26
- Florida – 24
- Tennessee – 17
- Auburn – 15
- Texas A&M – 11
- Kentucky – 10
- Alabama – 7
- South Carolina – 3
- Missouri – 2
- Vanderbilt – 1
- Ole Miss – 0
- Mississippi State – 0
Conference champions[link]
Main article: List of SEC conference champions
The Southeastern Conference sponsors eight men's sports and ten women's sports, and awards a conference championship in every one of them.
See also[link]
- List of SEC men's basketball tournament locations
- SEC on CBS
- Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium, located in Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Southeastern Collegiate Rugby Conference
Notes[link]
- ^ A. One men's home game per year played at Freedom Hall in Louisville.
- ^ B. In 2009, Carolina Stadium replaces historic Sarge Frye Field.
- ^ C. Two games played each year at Little Rock, one non-conference game and one SEC game.
- ^ D. New arena scheduled to open for 2010–11 season.
- ^ E. New Alex Box Stadium opened for 2009 season.
- ^ F. Though Mississippi State's Dudy Noble Field official seating capacity is 7,200, its total capacity is 15,500, which includes privately owned seating in Left Field Lounge. Mississippi State holds the all-time NCAA on-campus record for one day attendance at 14,991.[78]
- ^ H. Trophy first awarded in 1996.
- ^ I. Series was annual rivalry when Arkansas and Texas were both in the Southwest Conference. The teams have played only three times in the regular season since Arkansas joined the SEC, but will play again in 2014.
- ^ J. Series was annual rivalry when Arkansas and Texas A&M were both in the Southwest Conference. The teams began playing annually at Cowboys Stadium starting in 2009; beginning in 2012 the series will become a conference matchup and will revert to a home-and-home for 2012 and 2013, then return to Cowboys Stadium in 2014.
- ^ K. The series doesn't have a official nickname (the unofficial nickname is due to both teams sharing the same mascot name), but due to the close margin most years, some individual games do. Not an annual rivalry until Auburn and LSU were placed in SEC West division in 1992.
- ^ L. Series has only been played twice in regular season since 1987.
- ^ M. Played in Jacksonville. The rotates every year depending on which team is the designated home team. Also known as the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" though use of the term is discouraged due to the issue of underage alcohol use.
- ^ N. For decades the trophy of this game was a red, white, and blue bourbon barrel, but this practice was discontinued in 1999 following a DUI accident that killed two Kentucky football players.
- ^ O. Whereabouts of the original rag are unknown; a new rag was presented to LSU after victories in 2001 and 2006. Series was only contested twice from 1995 through 2005, but a 10-year contract began in 2006.
- ^ P. Since joining the SEC this game has been played on or around Halloween every year, accordingly many students dress in costume for this game. The contrasting team colors are also typical Halloween colors.
- ^ Q. For 74 years the trophy of this game was the Beer Barrel: an orange, white, and blue beer keg. However, this practice was discontinued in 1999 following the aforementioned DUI accident.
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